synchronized swimming

noun

: swimming in which the movements of one or more swimmers are synchronized with a musical accompaniment so as to form changing patterns
synchronized swimmer noun

Examples of synchronized swimming in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Artistic swimming: Used to be synchronized swimming but needed rebranding. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024 As the only schoolboy in his part of Florida who wanted to pursue artistic swimming — known as synchronized swimming back then — Gaudet had no choice but to join an all-girls club. Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022 At New York Live Arts, her performers, fluent in many styles from postmodern dance and hip-hop to synchronized swimming and martial arts, took center stage for dancing that spoke about a body’s history, its conditioning. Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022 Two years ago, faced with financial strains from the pandemic, Stanford decided to eliminate fencing and 10 other sports — men’s rowing, sailing, squash and synchronized swimming —because of their high costs. Photographs By Desiree Rios, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for synchronized swimming 

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Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of synchronized swimming was in 1950

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“Synchronized swimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synchronized%20swimming. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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