Started a triathlon
The crossword clue "Started a triathlon" is answered by SWAM, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SWAM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWAM answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SWAM
Every other clue in this collection answered by SWAM, most used first.
- Did the crawl - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Did the butterfly - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Took a dip - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Did laps - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Did laps in a pool - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Did the backstroke - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulated Michael Phelps - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Went for a dip - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Did the breaststroke - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Used the pool - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Did laps in the pool - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Did some laps - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Didn't sink - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Emulated Ederle - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Did laps, maybe - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Did laps, perhaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Did the backstroke, say - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulated Spitz - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Started a hole - TEED, used 17 times
- Triathlon, e.g. - RACE, used 11 times
- Start a triathlon - SWIM, used 10 times
- __ off (started a golf game) - TEED, used 8 times
- "It started long ago in the Garden of ___" ("The Game of Love" line) - EDEN, used 7 times
- Like one leg of a triathlon - SWUM, used 7 times
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