Maybe you will laugh but don't do so if this is the first time you have ever heard about it: some people can't swim, seriously...
Of course such a thing depends heavily on your environment, how your family raised you, if you are taught to swim in school, and other factors - but anyway... Can you swim? :)
Can you swim?
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Can you?
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Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
02/23/2012
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Yep !
No one really taught me, though. I was just in an after-school day-care program and they'd let us play in the pool and I watched other people.
No one really taught me, though. I was just in an after-school day-care program and they'd let us play in the pool and I watched other people.
02/23/2012
I love swimming!
I learned at about 5yrs old.
I learned at about 5yrs old.
02/23/2012
Barely.
02/23/2012
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And by "barely", I mean, BARELY. Like, just about can't.
Originally posted by
mistressg
Barely.
02/23/2012
Love to swim - I taught swimming for many years - from about 7 or 8 up to adults. For a while I also taught SCUBA as well.
02/23/2012
I can swim, not very well, but I can.
02/24/2012
I learned to swim when I was 4 or 5ish.
02/24/2012
I have tried and tried and tried. I sink like a rock.
02/24/2012
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I can
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
02/24/2012
I used to lifeguard.
02/24/2012
I can't swim well. I can float around and do various styles of swimming in a pool on a warm day but as soon as I'm in water that's really cold? I just start sinking. D:
02/24/2012
I can't swim to save my life lol
02/24/2012
I learned back when i was like 8 or something
02/24/2012
nope
02/24/2012
Yeah, I can swim. Took lessons as a kid, but I've never been as big into swimming as my sister who did it pretty competitively throughout her school years.
02/24/2012
Yea I can swim I was pretty much brought up in water haha.
02/24/2012
I love to swim! When I was in college I even took and passed the lifesaving course. I had another job though so I never actually worked as a lifeguard though, but I still love to swim!
02/24/2012
I am not the best at it but I can swim.
02/24/2012
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sure can i grew up playing out side
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
02/24/2012
It was required for a lot of my after school programs when I was a kid
02/24/2012
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yes i can swim i was taughta fter i had an asthma attack in a public pool and nearly drowned
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
02/24/2012
Yes, I love to swim!
02/24/2012
Yep and I like it.
02/24/2012
Swimming is a requirement for the Coast Guard...20 years, got to swim in many places around the world.
02/24/2012
I used to free dive when I lived in south florida, swam all the time and love it. My boyfriend can not swim at all. I have to teach him for sure though. The last two summers he got away with out me teaching him but not this year. HE WILL SWIM!
02/24/2012
Yes. We've always gone to the lake to swim since we were little. I've always had my kids around water and they can swim better than I can.
I have to hold my nose, but they are like fish.
I have to hold my nose, but they are like fish.
02/24/2012
i love swimming
02/24/2012
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In high school, I took a class to learn how to swim.
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
02/24/2012
Im the stupid person at the beach swimming way to far out and most likely to get ate by a shark. I love the water.
02/24/2012
I love to swim, though I don't get much opportunity to do so. I taught myself how when I was about six. Though I'm no champion or endurance swimmer, I'm at least capable of making my way from one end of a decent-sized pool to the other (but I do get tired quickly doing that).
02/24/2012
i would survive if thrown into a pond, lake, pool, river, or ocean.
02/24/2012
Yes I can swim.
02/24/2012
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I can.
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
02/24/2012
Yeah. I can't swim WELL, but I won't drown if I'm in the water!
02/24/2012
I put other because I know how to swim but I am not very good at it.
02/24/2012
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Same. I learned my first year of college. I can swim underwater, I had so many ear problems as a kid that I can't do any kind of swimming where my head goes above water, it throws my balance off and my body automatically stands up no matter what. I plan on getting lessons for my kids so they don't have to deal with it later on.
Originally posted by
Secret Pleasure
I put other because I know how to swim but I am not very good at it.
02/24/2012
love to swim. would rather be in a pool everyday for about 1 to 2 hours.
02/25/2012
Yep, I can swim. I grew up with a pool in my back yard, and learned at an early age. It does not at all surprise me that some people just never learn. In fact, I had a co-worker who was 33 recently that was married a few months ago and they were heading to Mexico for the honeymoon. I teased him and told him there is always water-sports he can participate in. He didn't find it too amusing, not that he was mad at me for that, just sort of embarassed that he did not know how to swim. They had fun regardless, so all is good in the hood.
02/25/2012
I learned to swim as a kid. Never had the luxury of a pool in my yard, though that would have been awesome.
03/20/2012
Yep, learned young.
03/20/2012
I'm afraid of water. I which I had learned at a very young age.
03/21/2012
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I can swim. I had to take lessons up until I was 12 but I learned how to swim.
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
03/21/2012
What time is the pool party? I make killer punch.
03/21/2012
I love water. There was a distinct time in my early twenties when it dawned on me that not everyone knows how to swim. The thought never really crossed my mind before, since it was such a common thing where I grew up. I was talking to a friend from Hungary, and she didn't really have access to recreational water, so never learned how. In fact, it was very surprising to her when she came to the US that so many people COULD swim, since very few people she knew in Hungary could. That blew my mind.
03/21/2012
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I can swim like a fish and we make sure our children can both swim and have the skills to keep themselves alive in any water related emergency.
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
03/21/2012
can swim but not great
03/21/2012
Rather well, but I never wanted to be a life-guard
03/21/2012
I can't swim at all.
03/21/2012
I can swim, but not very well. I have a lot of trouble staying above water while upright - I can float on my back but simply paddling in place takes a lot out of me to the point that I rarely go deep enough that my feet don't touch the ground.
03/21/2012
I can swim like a fish. Just not as graceful!!
03/21/2012
I can sort of thrash around attempting to keep my head above water, but I'm pretty sure that's drowning and not swimming.
03/21/2012
I have been swimming since I was a toddler. My mom said when she first put me in the water I was like a fish. My 1year old is like this too.
03/28/2012
I can swim, but not in the 'correct' way.
03/28/2012
I can't swim; I need to take lessons so I am able to protect my kids.
03/28/2012
I had the opportunity to teach myself how to swim when staying with my grandparents at the campground they spent their summers at. God that was so long ago lol. I think I helped teach my sister too. Now if I could just get my son to be a little more brave I could teach him how to swim.
03/28/2012
I love swimming and floating!!
03/28/2012
I can swim. I love swimming. I'm not the best at it. But still, I can do it! My husband on the other hand, his whole family can swim... him... at 115lbs, nope. Not even float. My skinny hubby sinks like a 2 ton rock.
03/28/2012
Yep!
03/28/2012
I can swim, took lessons when I was younger.
03/28/2012
I love swimming, I actually took lessons after I started to swim just for the sake of swimming even more... But now, I'm so self conscious about not being a man and all that I'd rather not swim publicly.
03/28/2012
Love to swim!
07/10/2012
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I learned to swim on my own =D
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
07/10/2012
Yes! Life in Florida is very fun in the water
07/10/2012
I can swim really well, as much as I'm afraid of water.
07/10/2012
Yes, I loved the water as early as 5 or 6 years old. I eventually became a lifeguard during the summers when I was in college. Love to see all the beautiful girls; and I saved a few, or at least I thought they needed saving!! Ha!
07/10/2012
Yup! I was raised on a river. I kinda learned from watching other people, eventually did a few summers as a Lifeguard.
07/10/2012
I never learned
07/10/2012
I can swim... kinda...
07/10/2012
Yep, since I was a kid.
07/11/2012
I can but was never officially taught!
07/11/2012
i used to be able to swim:/
In school we did lessons and i was fine.
Fast forward a few decades later of no swimming, and yeah, i discover that it's a skill i have lost over time
In school we did lessons and i was fine.
Fast forward a few decades later of no swimming, and yeah, i discover that it's a skill i have lost over time
07/11/2012
i love swimming! i miss it. we have a shared pool at our complex but its always filled with screaming kids. and the parents just let them scream. i don't want to share it with them. i can barely stand being in my apartment plenty of feet away from the pool with my doors and windows closed when they do that
07/11/2012
lisaswartz
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yes i can swim
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
07/11/2012
I LOVE swimming! We have to go at least once a week because I love it as a workout. My kids are learning to be water babies too.
07/11/2012
Like a fish!
07/11/2012
I love to swim!
07/11/2012
I'm like a fish
07/11/2012
i learned to swim when i was a baby
07/11/2012
I'm like a fish in water. I have been swimming since I was around a year old. (:
07/11/2012
Not very well, lol :/
07/11/2012
I love to swim!!
07/11/2012
I can swim, my father taught me when I was very little.
07/11/2012
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We have both scuba dived together since college. We LOVE to swim.
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
07/11/2012
I love swimming :3
07/11/2012
Yes, but I hardly ever get a chance to anymore
07/11/2012
Yup. c:
07/11/2012
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I love swimming! I learn at a young age.
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
My mom calls me a fish! I could spend EVERYDAY at a pool if I could.
07/11/2012
I can swim, if you call what I do in the water swimming. However, I really don't like to.
07/11/2012
nope scared of water
07/11/2012
I can swim, although I'm rather bad at it.
07/11/2012
Been swimming since i was a child
07/12/2012
Enough to not drown
07/12/2012
I can swim, just not very well.
07/12/2012
yes i can
07/12/2012
I can. lol.
07/12/2012
I am a great swimmer. I love water
07/13/2012
I was a lifeguard for 8 years. I love water!
07/13/2012
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I might be part fish
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
07/13/2012
More like doggie paddle. Lol.
07/13/2012
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yes i can swim
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
07/13/2012
yeah, i can swim.
07/26/2012
like a fish
07/26/2012
Yup I took lessons when I was little. I love swimming!
07/26/2012
I love to swim, but my dad can't!
07/26/2012
I'm a great swimmer! I love to swim
07/26/2012
I grew up in Florida. Water everywhere! Lets go to the beach!
07/26/2012
I took lessons when I was little.
07/26/2012
I can swim, I think it's important for parents to teach their kids how to swim.
07/26/2012
My parents always wanted my sisters and I to be strong swimmers, so when each of us were only a few months old they took us to our grandparents house and dropped us in. After a second or two we just floated back to the surface and have been in the water ever since!
07/26/2012
nope can't swim some family member told me ima learn today one day and just threw me in i almost died
07/26/2012
Of course
07/26/2012
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i can
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
07/26/2012
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I can, but my technique is probably all wrong. I have fun, but I probably look really awkward when I swim. I just went an hour ago! :3
Originally posted by
DreamWolf
Swimming is meant in a general way here, meaning that you are able to do the swimming, but it doesn't have to mean that you are a good swimmer...
08/16/2012
I love swimming. Growing up, my family had a boat so I spent a lot of time in the water. Last semester I took a conditioning swimming class at my university to perfect my technique. Swimming is my favorite way to exercise.
08/16/2012
Not great at it, but I love it
08/16/2012
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