Swimming can also improve posture.

Swimming is also used in marine biology to observe plants and animals in their natural habitat.

Swimming is also a professional sport.

Telstra is also the principal sponsor of Swimming Australia.

Waterlooville also has a swimming pool which is home to Havant & Waterlooville Swimming Club.

Swimming pools, tennis courts, polo grounds and exercise facilities are also common.

* Tales from Firozsha Baag ( 1987 ), also published as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag ( 1989 )

They also kept careful watch of the horizon right after sunset and just before dawn to note the order and position of the stars .” The ceremony must be held at exactly the right time of year, when the priest first tracked “ two small twinkling stars known as the Swimming Ducks in the northeastern horizon near the Milky Way .”

There are also several Swimming clubs and Rugby clubs.

The area also features several sports facilities, including Hatch End Swimming Pool, Hatch End Cricket Club and Hatch End Tennis Club.

The town also has its own tennis club Downpatrick Tennis Club Downpatrick has several other clubs that use the facilities of the Down Leisure Centre ( run by Down District Council ) such as the Lecale Amateur Swimming Club, the Downpatrick School of Lifesaving and the East Down Athletics Club.

Gladwin is also the birthplace of Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Kern, Swimming Pool Industry Executive Jim DeBerry, and Michigan's junior U. S. Senator Debbie Stabenow.

Swimming and tennis are also available at the private Whitehall Country Club, which draws members from surrounding communities that lack such facilities.

She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave and also composed the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box.

It is also the home of Kenilworth Swimming Club and the highly successful Kenilworth Masters Swimming Club.

Swimming is also popular, as there is a beautiful beach located on Fedje, which is to be found in the centre of the island on the shoreline of Lake Husavatnet.

Tim Hortons also sponsors many other community outreach programs including Free Skating, Free Swimming, Earn-a-Bike Program, Remembrance Day, Food Drives, the Smile Cookie program, as well as a community clean-up project.

Lewisham Swimming Club was also very successful with several of its members representing England in water polo and other gymkhana events.

Hemel Hempstead has several swimming clubs the most notable of which is Hemel Hempstead Swimming Club, the town also has FIFOLITS Swimming club and also boasts a swimming squad Dacorum Borough Swimming Squad which brings together the best swimmers in the Borough.

Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times, and the earliest records of swimming date back to Stone Age paintings from around 7, 000 years ago.

For example, swimming has been part of Olympic Swimming since 1896, and the current program contains events from 100m to 1500m in length, across all four main strokes and medley.

The campus has been selected as the headquarters for a number of sports agencies including the Sportscotland Institute of Sport, the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland, Scottish Swimming and triathlonscotland.

The town has Cloakham Lawns, the Axe Valley Sports Centre and Flamingo Swimming Pool, a library, several churches and a museum of local history.

RIT has 24 men's and women's varsity teams including Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field and Wrestling along with Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Cheerleading, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Volleyball.

Swimming in the Choctahatchee River has always been a popular activity in Clayhatchee.

( Swimming in these craters is not a good idea because Carbon dioxide can accumulate on top of the water, making you pass out and drown – although it has to be mentioned that there rarely is a calm day in Askja ...).

Swimming has been a part of the curriculum since the school district constructed an indoor olympic-size swimming pool in 1976.

Amersham has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V. Near the playing field is the " Chiltern Pools ", one of the two venues used by the Amersham Swimming Club.

Samuel West has received seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ( 1996 ), Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ( 1997 ), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999 ), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ( 2000 ), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst ( 2007 ), Faust by Goethe ( 2011 ) and A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman ( 2011 ).

Open since 2002, it consists of the National 50m Swimming Pool which is the only water facility in Ireland which has the approval of FINA, the international swimming body, and is the first in the country to be built to Olympic standards.

Since 1864 the Serpentine Swimming Club has organised a 100-yard race every Christmas morning for the Peter Pan Cup, inaugurated by J. M. Barrie, the creator of the fictional character Peter Pan.

Swimming has been held at all sixteen editions of the Pan American Games.

Hitchin has a local swimming club, Hitchin Swimming Club, which competes at local level, county and regional level.

Swimming can be undertaken using a wide range of different styles, known as ' strokes ', and these strokes are used for a different purposes, or to distinguish between classes in competitive swimming.

* Swimming floats and swimming boards ( kickboards ) are used for training or exercise purposes.

For international swimming purposes, competitive swimming in Northern Ireland falls under the Irish swimming federation, Swim Ireland, and as such British Swimming represents Great Britain, rather than the United Kingdom.

Local Swimming Club Pioneer 79 is based in the area and uses Acrrington Swimming Pool.

Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

Swimming and feeding behavior begin about 36 hours later.

The highest level of collegiate competition is the NCAA Division 1 Swimming and Diving Championship.

Fencing is one of five sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics.

Swimming water animals such as fish and cetaceans actively use pectoral fins for maneuvering, and dorsal fins contribute stability as the animal swims, propelling and maneuvering with its tail, itself recognizable as a fin.

; Harwich & Dovercourt Sailing Club ; Harwich, Dovercourt & Parkeston Swimming Club ; Harwich & Dovercourt Rugby Union Football Club ; Harwich & Dovercourt Cricket Club ; and Harwich Runners who with support from Harwich Swimming Club host the annual Harwich Triathlons.

Thus for the movement category there are powers that can be used for Running, Swimming, Climbing, Leaping, Gliding, Flying, Tunneling through solid surfaces, and even Teleportation.

After Swing Shift, Demme stepped back from Hollywood to make the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense ; the eclectic screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild ; a film-version of the stage production Swimming to Cambodia, by monologist Spaulding Gray ; and the New York Mafia-by-way-of Downtown comedy Married to the Mob.

In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming.

He retired in 1965 and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was Founding Chairman of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.

Lindisfarne appears in the second episode of Robson Green's Wild Swimming Adventure, a 2009 UK TV programme.

Swimming season is short and lasts only about 1. 5 months.

Swimming is usually safe, but skin irritation and burning is possible in areas of high concentration of red tide.

Fall sports include Cross Country, Football, Girls Golf, Boys Soccer, Softball, Boys Swimming / Diving, Girls Tennis, and Volleyball.

Spring sports include Baseball, Boys Golf, Boys Tennis, Girls Swimming / Diving, Girls Soccer, and Track & Field.

In 1933 – 1934 Kathryn Curtis organized a show, " The Modern Mermaids ," for the World Exhibition in Chicago, which the announcer introduced as " Synchronized Swimming.

See a photo of Motherwell's Rhythmic Swimming Display, 1946.

Swimming is consistently found to be amongst the top recreational activities undertaken by the public, and in some countries, swimming lessons are a compulsory part of the educational curriculum.

Swimming relies on the natural buoyancy of the human body, with the relative density of the average body, compared to water, of 0. 98, creating a floating effect.