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Kore Soong swimming in 2024

Kore swimming in a pool

Swimming was an act of propelling oneself through water. This could be done for recreation, participation in a sport, or to stay alive. It could be done in natural bodies of water or artificial installations such as swimming pools. One who swam for recreation could be said to "take a dip". (VOY: "Q2") An individual who could swim was called a swimmer. (TNG: "Family")

The game of water polo involved swimming. (ENT: "Vox Sola", "The Catwalk")

While he, Leonard McCoy and Nyota Uhura were considering the various programs available in the rec room, Hikaru Sulu suggested a swim at the beach. (TAS: "The Practical Joker")

Skinny dipping was a type of swimming, naked. (DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")

In 1986, Spock swam alongside George and Gracie in a whale tank at the Cetacean Institute. He earned the trust of the whales and was able to mind meld with one of them. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

In 2024, while swimming in their swimming pool, Kore Soong asked Adam Soong, who at the time she believed was her father; if her mother was a good swimmer. He told her she swam "like a mermaid." (PIC: "Fly Me to the Moon")

In 2259 of the alternate reality, James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy swam to the USS Enterprise which was located underneath the water on Nibiru. (Star Trek Into Darkness)

In 2286, when James T. Kirk was talking about converting the cargo bay of the HMS Bounty, Montgomery Scott asked him if he planned on taking a swim. Leonard McCoy replied, "Off the deep end, Mr. Scott." Later, after the HMS Bounty crashed into San Francisco Bay, the crew and the whales swam to safety. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

When the USS Enterprise-D was due at Pacifica for a science mission in 2364, Counselor Deanna Troi thought of taking a swim in the planet's ocean. Data wondered why Troi would anticipate this so much when the holodeck could replicate the experience, but Troi felt it just was not the same. Worf declined to join her in the experience, as he considering swimming to be too much like bathing. (TNG: "Conspiracy")

In 2366 on Risa, Joval suggested that Jean-Luc Picard have a swim followed by a massage; Picard declined. (TNG: "Captain's Holiday")

In 2367, Geordi La Forge was given the false memory of swimming a lot on Risa, when in fact he had been abducted by Romulans. (TNG: "The Mind's Eye")

In 2368, Kristin swam after diving off the Cliffs of Heaven from Cirrus IV in the Enterprise-D's holodeck and injured herself twice. (TNG: "Conundrum")

In 2369, when Jake Sisko was fishing in a holoprogram of Earth, he suggested to his father that they go swimming instead, as the fish were all "small fries," but there was no time, as they had to get ready for their arrival on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Emissary")

Lwaxana Troi was able to swim, as she informed Odo that year. (DS9: "The Forsaken")

In 2370, K'mtar encouraged Alexander Rozhenko to visit Qo'noS by telling him his uncle's house had a lake in which Alexander could swim. (TNG: "Firstborn")

In 2371, Chakotay was motivated by the desire to swim in the Gulf of Mexico and thus remained aboard the USS Voyager, as opposed to resettling on a Human colony in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY: "The 37's")

Later that year, Garak brought the captive Odo a container to "go for a swim" in, after he had answered Garak's questions. (DS9: "The Die is Cast")

In 2375, while under the influence of a Borg vinculum, Seven of Nine proposed going swimming to Naomi Wildman. Naomi, however, said that she was not allowed to unless her mother was present. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")

In 2378, Q Junior offered Kathryn Janeway the chance to take a dip with the mermaids of Golos Prime, which she declined. (VOY: "Q2")

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