swimming vs dip

swimming and dip both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
swimming	Yes	Yes	No	No
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, dip is a hyponym of swimming; that is, dip is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than swimming:

Other hyponyms of swimming include bathe, skinny-dip, plunge, dive, diving, floating, natation, skin-dive, skin diving.

swimming (noun)	dip (noun)
the act of swimming	a brief swim in water
	a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
	a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
	a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
	a brief immersion
	tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
	a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
	(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
	a depression in an otherwise level surface

swimming (adjective)	dip (adjective)
applied to a fish depicted horizontally
filled or brimming with tears

swimming (verb)	dip (verb)
	stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
	go down momentarily
	dip into a liquid while eating
	immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
	plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
	immerse in a disinfectant solution
	scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
	place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
	dip into a liquid
	appear to move downward
	slope downwards
	lower briefly
	switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
	take a small amount from