Definition of swimming stroke Swimming stroke
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What does swimming stroke mean?
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| swimming stroke - a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward | ||
| stroke a light touch with the hands | ||
| australian crawl, front crawl, crawl a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" | ||
| dog paddle an elementary swimming stroke imitating a swimming dog | ||
| sidestroke a swimming stroke in which the arms move forward and backward while the legs do a scissors kick | ||
| butterfly stroke, butterfly a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | ||
| breaststroke a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | ||
| backstroke a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | ||
| swimming kick a movement of the legs in swimming | ||
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