Welcome to the best list of swimming games. You’ll find swim games for lessons and 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

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Advanced Backstroke Breaststroke Arms challenge Christmas Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Dev. 01 Dev. 02 Developmental Drill Free Download Guide Freestyle Front Glide Game Going underwater guppies Halloween Holiday Individual Challenge Instructor Training Challenge Lesson Plan Lesson Plans Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Parent Tot Position 11 Set up your lane Sharks splashpad Spring Streamline Summer Teaching Swimming Training Module underwater Valentine's Day Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9

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Check out this alphabetized list below, or go to our Archive page.

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Instructor Training Challenge: Conquer Fear Dance

Instructor Training Challenge: Fast Performance

Instructor Training Challenge: Find Your Folk

Instructor Training Challenge: Leading the Blind with Commands

Instructor Training Challenge: Max Class Setup Pictures

Instructor Training Challenge: Name and Food Match

Instructor Training Challenge: Non-Verbal Directions

Instructor Training Challenge: Random Skill Test

Instructor Training Challenge: Rock, Paper, Scissors, CHEER!

Parent Tot – Buckethead – The best game ever

Parent Tot Games and Songs

Swim Lesson Toys and Games to play

Swimming Game – 100 Point Swim

Swimming Game – 3 Thanksgiving Activities for Developmental Swimming Practice

Swimming Game – 6 Jumps from the blocks

Swimming Game – Activities on Ping Pong Balls

Swimming Game – Alligator Walk

Swimming Game – Animal Hunt (splashpad)

Swimming Game – Away Camp

Swimming Game – Back float contest

Swimming Game – Bake a Cake

Swimming Game – Baseball World Series

Swimming Game – Bench Crossing

Swimming Game – Big Bad Wolf

Swimming Game – Breaststroke kick dance

Swimming Game – Bubble Pop; AI generated

Swimming Game – Buckethead

Swimming Game – Car Wash

Swimming Game – Challenge Day

Swimming Game – Challenge: 25 Position 11 Freestyle

Swimming Game – Challenge: At Flags, 3 fly to get to 1/2 way

Swimming Game – Challenge: Backstroke Kick Count

Swimming Game – Challenge: Be a submarine

Swimming Game – Challenge: BR Kicks on back

Swimming Game – Challenge: Bubble Blaster Countdown

Swimming Game – Challenge: Canoe Paddle

Swimming Game – Challenge: Cupid’s Heart

Swimming Game – Challenge: Diving Ring Pickup Progression

Swimming Game – Challenge: Elite; DO 4 BR kicks on back

Swimming Game – Challenge: Flatten self like a squished BUG!

Swimming Game – Challenge: Flip Flop Flap

Swimming Game – Challenge: Flips

Swimming Game – Challenge: Frozen Magic

Swimming Game – Challenge: Giving Love; your favorite toy

Swimming Game – Challenge: Guard Tube Raft

Swimming Game – Challenge: Halloween Costume Stroke

Swimming Game – Challenge: Handstand Rewind

Swimming Game – Challenge: Handstand with Flip

Swimming Game – Challenge: Hurdles and Limbos

Swimming Game – Challenge: Kick on Side Helicopter Arm

Swimming Game – Challenge: Lift toes out of water

Swimming Game – Challenge: Log Push

Swimming Game – Challenge: Macarena Position 11

Swimming Game – Challenge: Noodle Scull

Swimming Game – Challenge: One Breath Waltz

Swimming Game – Challenge: One Finger Floating

Swimming Game – Challenge: One Stroke FREE w/ Mirror

Swimming Game – Challenge: Otter Eating

Swimming Game – Challenge: Position 1 Breath

Swimming Game – Challenge: Position 11 Cartwheel

Swimming Game – Challenge: Puppet Master Freestyle

Swimming Game – Challenge: Shark Breath Race

Swimming Game – Challenge: Singing in the Rain

Swimming Game – Challenge: Sit on bottom

Swimming Game – Challenge: Spin in SL underwater

Swimming Game – Challenge: Splash the Deck

Swimming Game – Challenge: Star Float without Kicking

Swimming Game – Challenge: Streamline on Side to flags

Swimming Game – Challenge: Streamline Push

Swimming Game – Challenge: Striking Love

Swimming Game – Challenge: Stroke Switch

Swimming Game – Challenge: Superman, Save Me!

Swimming Game – Challenge: Swim around the circle

Swimming Game – Challenge: Swim around the circle

Swimming Game – Challenge: Two Toe Tornado

Swimming Game – Challenge: Vampire Sleep

Swimming Game – Challenge: Witch Which Witch

Swimming Game – Champion Swimmer

Swimming Game – Choice Grid

Swimming Game – Christmas Presents

Swimming Game – Circle Circle and Under

Swimming Game – Dancing Jumps

Swimming Game – Diving In

Swimming game – Diving well challenge

Swimming Game – Do the Twist w/ Mirrors

Swimming Game – Driving the Stake

Swimming Game – Duck Partner Kick

Swimming Game – Dumpy in the Dingas!

Swimming Game – Earn Points Grid

Swimming Game – Election

Swimming Game – Fill the Bucket, Empty the Bucket

Swimming Game – Flick a Frog

Swimming Game – Flip a Coin

Swimming Game – Flip a Coin Glides; AI generated

Swimming Game – Flip Turn or Open Turn Race

Swimming Game – Floating toy hurricane

Swimming Game – Give a Gift, Take a Swim

Swimming Game – Glide and Catch

Swimming Game – Glide or Die; an AI swimming game

Swimming Game – Glide through the Hula Hoop

Swimming Game – Halloween Challenges

Swimming Game – Halloween Practice with Coach Drake

Swimming Game – Human Cannonball

Swimming Game – If you’re Happy and you know it

Swimming Game – Jumps

Swimming Game – Keeping the line

Swimming Game – Kickboard Chaos

Swimming Game – Kicking Battle

Swimming Game – Legs on Fire

Swimming Game – Log Roll Streamline

Swimming Game – Magic Mirror

Swimming Game – Magic Statue

Swimming Game – Mirror Me

Swimming Game – Mirror, Mirror, Pose

Swimming Game – Monkey Walks

Swimming Game – Mushroom Man

Swimming Game – Noodle Race Partners

Swimming Game – Parent Tot – Hokey Pokey

Swimming Game – Pay the Hot Dog Vendor

Swimming Game – Personal Challenge

Swimming Game – Pigeon

Swimming Game – Pirates and Explorers; AI generated

Swimming Game – Police and Baddies

Swimming Game – Pool Noodle Surfing

Swimming Game – President’s Day Trivia

Swimming Game – Race: Pick your Pieces

Swimming Game – Read the Map

Swimming Game – Reindeer Jump

Swimming Game – Ring Retrieval

Swimming Game – Roll the dice game

Swimming Game – Run or alligator walk race

Swimming Game – Sharks and Minnows

Swimming Game – Singing and Rolling

Swimming Game – Slalom

Swimming Game – Smile Face Float Boat and Push

Swimming Game – Smiley Faces

Swimming Game – Spider

Swimming Game – Splash and Dash

Swimming Game – Splash and Sing

Swimming Game – Spray Dance Streamline

Swimming Game – Statue Master

Swimming Game – Streamline Hop

Swimming Game – Streamline Launch

Swimming Game – Streamline Line Walk

Swimming Game – Streamline through Hula Hoops

Swimming Game – Superhero Glides

Swimming Game – Swim Subtraction

Swimming Game – Swim then Coach

Swimming Game – Swimming Musical Chairs

Swimming Game – Tic Tac Toe

Swimming Game – Tic Toc Around the Clock

Swimming Game – Toy Toss

Swimming Game – Treasure Dive; variation on diving for toys

Swimming Game – Treasure Hunt

Swimming Game – Triathlon: Swim, Bike, Run; at swim practice

Swimming Game – Trick and Treat

Swimming Game – True or False

Swimming Game – Turtle Swim

Swimming Game – Twirling Strokes

Swimming Game – Underwater Picture

Swimming Game – Underwater Position 11

Swimming Game – Zoom around the moon

Swimming Game – Fly and Back

Swimming Game: Holiday Gift Giving

Swimming Game: Holiday Snow Plow

Swimming Game: Secret Messages

Swimming Games – Love Day! Valentine’s Challenges

Swimming Ideas Podcast 006: Songs for Swimming Lessons

Swimming Lessons Plan – Swim Lesson Plan Template

Thoughts on watching my 3-year-old in her first lessons

Why “Mr. Fox” is the worst swim game you can play

Why swimming games are a crucial component of a swim lesson

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