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Spell Bee Word: Swimming


What does swimming mean?

Word: Swimming

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Swimming means the sport or activity of moving through water using your arms and legs.

How do you spell swimming?

Syllables: swim - ming

Tricky part: Swim doubles its m before adding ing, so a single m is the usual mistake.

Watch out for: swiming, swimmimg, swimmink

Memory tip: When a short word ends in one vowel and one consonant, like swim, that last consonant doubles before an ending is added.

Swimming in a sentence

Example 1: Swimming is my favourite summer activity.

Example 2: Our school has swimming classes on Saturdays.

Example 3: Dadu goes swimming in the lake every morning before breakfast.

Fun Fact

Swimming has been part of every modern Summer Olympics since the first one, held in Athens in 1896.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) swimming
b) towle
c) goggels
d) diveing

Show answer

a) swimming. Goggles ends in les, towel ends in el, and diving drops the e of dive.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

mwignsim

a) siwmming
b) swimming
c) wsimming
d) swimmign

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b) swimming. Wsimming, siwmming and swimmign keep the double m but swap two other letters.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

sw_mm_ng

a) e, i
b) i, e
c) a, i
d) i, i

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d) i, i. Both gaps take an i: one belongs to swim and one to the ending.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the name of a swimming stroke?

a) bowling
b) dribbling
c) backstroke
d) free kick

Show answer

c) backstroke

2. Before his swimming lesson, Kabir packs a towel and ____.

a) goggles
b) a cricket bat
c) shin pads
d) a helmet

Show answer

a) goggles

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Next steps

How to participate in CREST International Spell Bee

The CREST International Spell Bee (CSB) is conducted in two editions – CREST International Spell Bee - Summer (CSB) and CREST International Spell Bee - Winter (CSBW) – giving students across the globe an opportunity to showcase and enhance their spelling proficiency. Designed for young learners from Senior KG to Class 8, the competition focuses on word-building, pronunciation, and vocabulary enrichment, helping students develop strong linguistic skills.

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