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Swimming, also known as swim team, is a sport where people compete against others for faster times individually (unless in a relay).

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Swimming helps exercise a lot of different muscles in someones body. Swimming really helps with keeping your heart rate up, maintaining a healthy body weight, building endurance/muscle strength/cardiovascular endurance, and much more.

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Swimming helps people with anxiety and depression. It helps with regulating sleeping patterns, and swimming releases endorphins that help people feel a greater sense of happiness and well-being.

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Swimming helps bring people together, since when you're on a swim team you and your teammates are required to cheer each other on, which brings everyone closer together. Also, when you're on a swim team when your little, it really helps with having long term friends while also always being in good shape.

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When swimming, you must follow the pools guidelines and signs to be safe. You cannot run on the pools deck, you cannot dive in the shallow ends, you have to practice balance on the diving blocks, etc. Swimming can be dangerous because of how slippery the deck is and there's always a drowning concern.

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I do not swim often anymore, although I am hoping to get back into it soon. I was on swim team last year, where I swam all winter and the practices were pretty intense, ranging from 600 yard non-stop laps (sprinting) to doing easy fun drills occasionally. However, I especially want to keep swimming when I'm older as my own exercising since I enjoy it and it makes me feel happier when I swim.