Swimming is based on the natural bouyancy of the human body on water.

The body has a relative density of 0.98 compared to water, this causes the body to float.
when we compare between swimming and land activities -such as running-, swimming is low impact.
The density and viscosity of water also create resistance for objects moving through the water.
This means that hydrodynamics are an important factor in stroke technique in terms of swimming faster, and swimmers wishing to swim faster, or
wishing to tire less, will try to reduce the drag caused by the body's motion through the water.
Efficient swimming by reducing water resistance involves having a horizontal water position, rolling the body in order to reduce the breadth of the
body in the water, and extending the arms as far as possible in order to reduce wave resistance.
10,000-year-old rock paintings of people swimming were found in the Cave of Swimmers near Wadi Sura in southwestern Egypt. These pictures
seem to show breaststroke or doggy paddle, although it is also possible that the movements have a ritual meaning unrelated to swimming.
Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible, Beowulf, etc. In 1538, Nikolaus Wynmann, a German
professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, The Swimmer or A Dialogue on the Art of Swimming
The most famous drawings were found in the Kebir desert and are estimated to be from around 4000 BCE. The Nagoda bas-relief also shows
swimmers inside of men dating back from 3000 BCE. The Indian palace Mohenjo Daro from 2800 BCE contains a swimming pool sized 30 m by
60 m.
Looking back to swimming history, any form of competitive swimming wasnt formed until the 1800s in Europe. Meanwhile, the evolution of
swimming history expanded during the middle ages. Even literary references about the pastime became popular. Nicolas Wynmans book
Colymbetes, published in 1538 was the first novel devoted to the subject. His purpose was to reduce the dangers of drowning.
In 1587, Everard Digby also wrote a swimming book, claiming that humans could swim better than fish. His short treatise, De arte natandi, was
written in Latin and contained over 40 woodcut illustrations depicting various methods of swimming
During 18th and 19th century the sport began to evolve into more of a competition than just life safety. Swimming Associations and Clubs popped
up all over the world
Another turning point in the history of swimming is when schools accepted swimming as a natural part of any life education. Thus, they began to
teach swimming in schools not just as a life safety course but as an extracurricular activity. However, swimming competitions began to arise
around the mid 1800s. England was the first to modernize the sport and incorporate an indoor swimming pool with a swim team.
Swimming emerged as a competitive sport in the 1830s in England.
By 1837, the National Swimming Society was holding regular swimming competitions in six artificial swimming pools, built around London. The
sport grew in popularity and by 1880, when the first national governing body, the Amateur Swimming Association, was formed
The freestyle stroke, also known as front crawl, is the fastest and most efficient of the competitive swimming strokes. That's why it is always used
in the freestyle event of swimming competitions and is also often the preferred stroke of experienced swimmers and triathletes
The breaststroke is without a doubt one of the most popular swimming strokes. In fact, many recreational swimmers are perfectly happy using
this swim stroke all the time.

Backstroke (or back crawl) is, as its name suggests, the only one of the four competitive swimming strokes swum on the back. In terms of speed,
it is slower than front crawl or butterfly but faster than breaststroke.
Learning butterfly can be difficult because this swim stroke has several peculiar features
The sidestroke is a swim stroke swum on the sides. It is not used in competitions and therefore less known nowadays
As an occupation
Some works requires workers to swim. For example, divers who are searching for starfish to obtein an economic benefit, same thing with
submarins fishers.
When there's not any ways, we could do short travels by swimming. Countless migrants cross rivers or seas by swimming