With the objective of studying playfulness as a facilitating resource for children's swimming teaching and to identify this approach in scientific publications dealing with children's swimming, this study was carried out based on texts published between 2000 and 2017 in databases recognized by the scientific literature. After selecting 16 works among the previously determined criteria, a table was prepared containing data referring to each document as the type of work, its objectives and the results obtained. Before the evaluation of these results, it was possible to perceive that the studies that deal with playfulness in children's swimming are extremely important for the academic environment and for Physical Education professionals since the methods that make use of playfulness in children's swimming have obtained better results in this research. Therefore, it is proposed by the authors of this work that the material resulting from this research can serve as a theoretical basis for professionals focused on teaching children's swimming.
