Imagine how stupid we look to water dwellers with our methods of self propelled moving trough water.
I bet the water fauna doesn’t consider it swimming either and probably would have some funny name for it if they used a universal language.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
Alas, not original like Sprog, just an individual with quite refined tastes quoting from the excellent classic poem by Lewis Carroll https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
Well if the physicists can steal “quark” from James Joyce, the sealologists can steal “galumph” from Lewis Carroll.
(“Quark” rhymes with “Mark” in the original, though; not with “dork”.)
Wellllll … I’ve never personally tried it myself (=P) but AFAIK it should not hurt. Seals have a very thick layer of fat under their skin (blubber) so it probably feels like bouncing on a gym mattress at worst. Plus, their natural habitat is full of uncomfortable looking rocks anyway (example) and it would be an evolutionary disadvantage if they were in pain all the time from just moving around. Flat pavement without sharp edges probably feels less uncomfortable than those rocks.
So I just started galumphing…