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competitive swimming

Summary

competitive swimming is a type of sport[1]. It draws 2,603 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_sport category, ranking #68 of 435).[2]

Key Facts

  • competitive swimming's instance of is recorded as type of sport[3].
  • competitive swimming is a type of water sport[4].
  • competitive swimming is a type of swimming[5].
  • competitive swimming is a type of Olympic sport[6].
  • competitive swimming's Commons category is recorded as Competitive swimming[7].
  • competitive swimming's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Competitive swimming[8].
  • competitive swimming's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Swimming[9].
  • competitive swimming's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=swimming[10].
  • competitive swimming's described by source is recorded as Green Map Icons[11].
  • competitive swimming's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12].
  • competitive swimming's uses is recorded as swimming pool[13].
  • competitive swimming's record or record progression is recorded as list of world records[14].
  • competitive swimming's practiced by is recorded as swimmer[15].
  • competitive swimming's regulated by is recorded as World Aquatics[16].
  • competitive swimming's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17].

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Definition and Type

competitive swimming's instance of is recorded as type of sport[3]. Recorded subclass of include water sport[4], swimming[5], and Olympic sport[6].

Why It Matters

competitive swimming draws 2,603 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_sport category, ranking #68 of 435).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Competitive swimming
    Regulated by → World Aquatics
    Topic's main wikimedia portal → Portal:Swimming
    Uses → swimming pool
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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