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Definition of Aquatics
1. Noun. Sports that involve bodies of water.
Specialized synonyms: Swim, Swimming, Surfboarding, Surfing, Surfriding, Water-skiing
Generic synonyms: Athletics, Sport
Examples of category: Fin, Paddle, Crawl, Breaststroke, Backstroke, Dive, Belly-flop
Definition of Aquatics
1. Noun. Sports involving water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aquatics
1. aquatic [n] - See also: aquatic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquatics
Literary usage of Aquatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Immersed aquatics, with flat linear leaves : ovaries solitary or distinct, 1-ovuled.
... Slender immersed aquatics, with jointed branching floating stems, ..."
2. On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise by Mr Marshall, Marshall (William) (1803)
"THE aquatics. As the Crab excels the Haw thorn, upon bleak barren hills, so the
aquatics gain a preference, in low swampy grounds: for ..."
3. Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving by Robert Smith Surtees, Robert Smith Surtees, 1803-1864 (1903)
"... aquatics: MR. JORROCKS AT MARGATE ‘THE shady side of Cheapside had become a
luxury, 1 and footmen in red plush breeches objects of real commiseration, ..."
4. Handy Book of the Flower-garden, Being Practical Directions for the by David Thomson (1876)
"aquatics OR WATER PLANTS.—There are few gardens in which there is not a piece of
water, however small; but in many instances, instead of being either useful ..."
5. Water-lilies and how to Grow Them: With Chapters on the Proper Making of by Henry Shoemaker Conard, Henri Hus (1907)
"... WATER HYACINTHS AND OTHER CHOICE aquatics No MORE stately plants adorn our
gardens than the lotuses. Their great, circular, peltate leaves stand three ..."
6. The National Sports of Great Britain: Fifty Engravings with Descriptionsby Henry Thomas Alken by Henry Thomas Alken (1903)
"... where the willow, and other aquatics, are found in clumps. They also attach
themselves to the salt-marshes, when they can find covert in the ..."
7. Practical Text-book of Plant Physiology by Daniel Trembly Macdougal (1912)
"... Movements of aquatics. Follow the movements of the scapes of Pontederia,
Vallisneria, or of almost any aquatic plant and note the positions assumed.1 1 ..."
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