Swimming skill or sport?

I have spent so much time watching and talking to people about swimming. The act of swimming is really complex. You take a body which spends 99% of its time on land with gravity and then place it into an environment where all the rules it knows are thrown out the window. The brain of the person learning in that environment is shooting off emergency messages which would send anyone into a panic. The bonus about learning to swim is that you can train your brain to let go of the normal and live in a space where the rules are different, and the rewards are substantial. This is why swimming is a skill. Yes, you can use it for sport yet the greater reward is learning how to do it so you can enjoy this skill which removes you from the everyday world.