Welcome to the internet’s biggest and best list of swimming games. You’ll find swim games for lessons or for competitive swim teams.
These are the games we use in both our own swim lesson program and our competitive swim team.
The swimming game descriptions follow this general formula:
- Category
- Core Skill
- Name
- How
- What
- Who
You’ll find more information on these categories, core skills, and game design in the book, “How to Create Fun and Effective Swim Games.”
Each game will give you instructions on how to play it, what exactly you need or how to describe the rules, and who it is appropriate to play with.
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- Swimming Game – 100 Point Swim
- Swimming Game – Alligator Walk
- Swimming Game – Back float contest
- Swimming Game – Bake a Cake
- Swimming Game – Baseball World Series
- Swimming Game – Buckethead
- Swimming Game – Challenge Day
- Swimming Game – Champion Swimmer
- Swimming Game – Choice Grid
- Swimming Game – Diving In
- Swimming Game – Driving the Stake
- Swimming Game – Duck Partner Kick
- Swimming Game – Election
- Swimming Game – Flick a Frog
- Swimming Game – Flip a Coin
- Swimming Game – Flip Turn or Open Turn Race
- Swimming Game – Floating toy hurricane
- Swimming Game – Glide through the Hula Hoop
- Swimming Game – Human Cannonball
- Swimming Game – If you’re Happy and you know it
- Swimming Game – Jumps
- Swimming Game – Kicking Battle
- Swimming Game – Legs on Fire
- Swimming Game – Log Roll Streamline
- Swimming Game – Monkey Walks
- Swimming Game – Noodle Race Partners
- Swimming Game – Parent Tot – Hokey Pokey
- Swimming Game – Personal Challenge
- Swimming Game – Pigeon
- Swimming Game – President’s Day Trivia
- Swimming Game – Ring Retrieval
- Swimming Game – Roll the dice game
- Swimming Game – Sharks and Minnows
- Swimming Game – Slalom
- Swimming Game – Spider
- Swimming Game – Statue Master
- Swimming Game – Streamline Launch
- Swimming Game – Streamline Line Walk
- Swimming Game – Streamline through Hula Hoops
- Swimming Game – Swimming Musical Chairs
- Swimming Game – Treasure Hunt
- Swimming Game – True or False
- Swimming Game – Turtle Swim
- Swimming Game – Underwater Picture
- Swimming Game – Fly and Back
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