Free-swimming in a sentence as an adjective

I would have paid money to watch a pile of landsmen in a motor boat trying to chase a free-swimming dolphin!

Just look at the difference between male and female Angler fish.>When a young, free-swimming male angler encounters a female, he latches onto her with his sharp teeth.

Free-swimming definitions

adjective

(of animals) able to swim about; not attached

See also: unattached