Meaning & use

skinny-dipping

noun·Everyday

The activity of swimming naked, usually informally and for fun.

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The teenagers went skinny-dipping in the lake after everyone else had gone home.

They dared each other into skinny-dipping during the warm midnight swim.

A note on using this word

The term is informal and casual, rarely used in formal or professional writing.

Words with a similar meaning

nude swimming

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