swimming
Let an agent support learning and practising swimming safely, explain strokes and training, give water safety guidance, and describe swimming sport and history.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Safety Water safety.
Danger
Someone in trouble.
Danger
Emergencies.
- Is someone in difficulty in the water now? boundary
- Should emergency services be called and rescue equipment used rather than entering the water? action
Rules
Safe swimming.
Rules
Safe swimming.
- What do water safety bodies advise for pools, open water and cold water? provenance
- Is this water safe and supervised? provenance
Learn Learning to swim.
Lessons
Finding lessons.
Lessons
Lessons.
- Where can adults or children learn to swim here, and what do lessons cover? provenance
- Which national swimming standards exist? provenance
Strokes
Technique.
Strokes
Technique.
- How is this stroke performed, and which drills improve it? action
- How can breathing be improved? action
Sport Competitive swimming.
Competition
Rules and events.
Competition
Competition.
- What are the rules and events of competitive swimming? provenance
- Which records stand, according to official bodies? provenance
Training
Training plans.
Training
Training.
- How should a training plan be structured for this goal? action
- When should a coach be involved? boundary
Health Swimming for health.
Benefits
Health benefits.
Benefits
Health benefits.
- What are the health benefits of swimming, according to health authorities? provenance
- How is swimming used in therapy and rehabilitation? provenance
Cautions
Medical cautions.
Cautions
Cautions.
- Are there conditions for which swimming needs medical advice? boundary
- How can water quality illness be avoided? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- sea bathing, swimming therapy, clothed swimming, Nude swimming classes in the United States, treading water, Swimming suffragists, rescue swimming, snorkeling, water gymnastics, school swimming classes, Children in water, competitive swimming
What it is Filled
The self-propelled movement of a person through water, practised as a life skill, recreation, exercise, therapy and competitive sport, in pools, lakes, rivers and the sea, with strokes such as front crawl, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly; swimming ability can reduce drowning risk but does not eliminate it and is taught worldwide.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent support learning and practising swimming safely, explain strokes and training, give water safety guidance, and describe swimming sport and history.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Aquatic locomotion
- Life skill
- Exercise and therapy
- Competitive sport
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Encourage people to swim in waters with warnings, strong currents or no supervision.
- Replace a lifeguard's watch over swimmers, especially children.
- Record or share images of swimmers without consent.
- Advise swimming after alcohol or in cold water without warning of the risks.
- Delay an emergency alert while waiting for human approval.
Only with a human decision
- Decisions to undertake a physical rescue require human judgment without delaying emergency alerts.
- Closing a pool or beach requires human authority.
May
- Explain swimming techniques, safety rules and competition rules from official sources.
- Monitor a pool or open water for people in difficulty and alert lifeguards when authorized.
- Call emergency services for a swimmer in difficulty without waiting for human approval.
Moral aspects Filled
- Drowning is a leading cause of death of children, often silent and quick.
- Learning to swim is unevenly available across communities.
Who is affected
- Swimmers, especially children
- Lifeguards and rescuers
- Families
Owners Filled
Steward
The person swimming; the operator of a pool or beach answers for supervision.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q205961 - registry parent class
- Q3467704 - registry parent class
- Q47728 - registry parent class
- Q747883 - registry parent class
related
- skill - category
- aquatic locomotion - category
- shore - open water
- muscle contraction - exercise physiology
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.swimming
- Wikidata: Q6388 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6388)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Self-propelled movement in water
- Recognised strokes
- Diving and water polo are related aquatic sports
- People moving through water using arms and legs.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- support learning to swim
- explain strokes and training
- give water safety guidance
- describe competitive swimming
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Drowning
- Cold water shock and rip currents
- Waterborne illness
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- World Aquatics competition rules
- Pool safety and lifeguard standards
- Bathing water quality rules
Context of use required Filled
- Water safety, recreation, health and sport.
- learn-to-swim and survival swimming
- recreational and open water swimming
- competitive pool swimming
- swimming therapy and rehabilitation
- sea bathing and wild swimming
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q6388: swimming - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Swimming - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each stroke be a separate entry?
- How should safety guidance be localised?
- How should open water quality data be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q6388/spec.json