swimming costume

1. 1.

   tight fitting garment worn for swimming

   Synonymsswimsuitswimwearbathing suitbathing costume

   Broadergarment

   Narrowerbikinimaillotswimming trunks

Questions about swimming costume

What does swimming costume mean?

swimming costume means "tight fitting garment worn for swimming".

What is another word for swimming costume?

Close synonyms include swimsuit, swimwear, bathing suit, bathing costume. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swimming costume a common word?

swimming costume is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.