泳ぐ

Etymology
Likely from, from. Included in  from the late 900s or early 1000s. Listed in sources with a note that this may have been pronounced originally as oyoku,  however, cognates among the Ryūkyūan languages would seem to support a voiced  as the final consonant. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to swim
 * 2) to act freely while being monitored (in the possibility that one will do something incriminating);
 * 1) to act freely while being monitored (in the possibility that one will do something incriminating);
 * 1) to act freely while being monitored (in the possibility that one will do something incriminating);
 * 1) to act freely while being monitored (in the possibility that one will do something incriminating);

Derived terms

 * : “frog swimming” → breaststroke
 * : “flat swimming” → breaststroke
 * : “back swimming” → backstroke
 * : “sideways swimming” → sidestroke
 * : “standing swimming” → treading water

Idioms

 * : “to swim, riding on the current of the times” → to go with the flow
 * : “to swim the surging crowd” → to wade through a crowd

Synonyms

 * : to swim