Can you swim?

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I can swim very well. But I cannot swim very fast or swim flat on my back.

i swim very well and i've always loved swimming. if i wasn't rowing, i'd be swimming.

I don't drown, but I don't have the technique to swim laps.

Backstroke and doggy-paddle only. I can't tread water.

Swimming came pretty naturally to me. When I was 7 we went into the community pool, and I could doggy paddle almost right away. I basically did it all on my own (though my dad was right there, he didn't have to teach me in steps or anything, which is a rarity for me - I am now at age 18 needing steps to learn laundry).

I never had any formal instruction, though once when I was about 10 and was swimming, another lady who was also swimming advised that if I cupped my hands while swimming, that I could go faster. Until recently, I did all my swimming with holding my breath and staying underwater. However, recently I am experiencing an aversion to having my head underwater, even when my nose is held shut and my eyes are closed, so I've been learning how to swim with my head over water, and I enjoy it even more.

It wasn't until recently while watching the Olympics that I looked at the different styles, and the way I swim is most like freestyle. I used to want to be part of the swimming team for the high school, but the high school I ended up going to didn't have a swim team, and I wasn't in shape enough by then anyway (still would like to exercise more - and more consistently).

Yes, I love swimming. It's one of my favourite ways to relax. I was terrified of water as a kid though. I only learned to swim because the school swimming instructor was a bully and a sadist...she used to just throw us into the deep end and see what happened I learned to swim as a means of self preservation.

I can't swim, and the swimming lessons I had to take in school (with the rest of the class) failed to teach me how. The only thing I 'gained' from swimming class was a type of pox, that left a small number of pockmarks on my skin; I still have the scars. Nice souvenir, huh?

I live in a city that is known for its ring of canals; if I ever fell into one, I would drown unless someone rescued me.

I can swim well enough to save myself from drowning in a body of water but I don't like it at all and had a myriad excuses to get out of swimming lessons at school.

yes

I used to be a sufficiently good swimmer, but I lost stamina!

Can swim not very good, but enough for me.
As a kid I had a weird way of swimming with my legs almost vertical.

No.Part of the reason is I've never been interested in sunbathing or beaches and I've never
given myself another incentive to learn.Would be useful if I ever had to try and save myself
or someone else from from drowning so in that respect I wish I'd learned.I didn't feel so bad
when I discovered recently that 2 of my office colleagues can't swim either.

I am a pretty strong swimmer. Swimming and walking are the two types of exercise I really enjoy.

This poll is very skewed =/ It says 13 people voted "no", but I've seen way more people than that saying that they swim very, very poorly.

I didn't learn to swim until late in middle school, and even then, I'm terrible at it. I can keep my head above water if I paddle hard enough, but I don't go very fast at all. When we had to do laps in gym class, I was always the last to finish. I have two swimming phobias, too...I won't swim in anything that's "gross", like if there's seaweed or too much algea, I won't go near it. I don't mind picking seaweed or having it thrown at me, I just don't like the "unknown", you know, not knowing what's in there...could be leeches or turtles or even some other-wordly beasts O_O Same with deep water...if I can't touch the bottom or see the bottom, I completely freak out (especially if waves start coming at me).

Not really a phobia, but I can't open my eyes underwater either...I tried maybe twice, and all I could see was blur, and my eyes were super irritated, so now I try not to go into the water without goggles. Takes me forever to get into the water, too...it's always so cold

So yeah, I'm voting "no"

Love to go diving, though...especially if someone has an underground swimming pool, love to put my goggles on and sink to the bottom, and see how long I can hold my breath =) But of course, as soon as I get back to the surface, I freak out and race for the edge to grab onto Would love to try scuba diving someday.

I can't swim at all. Here in The Netherlands, all school children about the age of 9 years old get swim class, because we have a lot of water here. However, swimming lessons were a disaster, it never worked. I'm the only one in my class that can't. Ialso had difficulties reagrding biking, At the age of 6 I struggled with it for months, and then I could it. Months of trying without any result, and then, in one minute, I could it. Weird.