SWIMMING POOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swimming pool mean? 

• SWIMMING POOL (noun)
  The noun SWIMMING POOL has 1 sense:

1. pool that provides a facility for swimming

  Familiarity information: SWIMMING POOL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWIMMING POOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pool that provides a facility for swimming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

natatorium; swimming bath; swimming pool

Context example:

'swimming bath' is a British term

Hypernyms ("swimming pool" is a kind of...):

athletic facility (a facility for athletic events)

pool (an excavation that is (usually) filled with water)

Holonyms ("swimming pool" is a part of...):

lido (a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water sports)

 Context examples 

Preschoolers are most likely to drown in a swimming pool.

(Drowning, NIH)

You can also get the infection by swallowing water in a swimming pool contaminated with human waste.

(E. Coli Infections, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

You can get athlete's foot from damp surfaces, such as showers, swimming pools, and locker room floors.

(Athlete's Foot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

We estimate that this ‘ring rain’ drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn’s rings in half an hour, said James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

Well, suppose we take a plunge in the swimming pool? I haven't made use of it all summer.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers—but outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)