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breaststroke
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Wikipedia
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Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on his or her chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be swum comfortably ...
WordNet
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v. swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Amanda Beard, 14, she of the huge eyes and a breaststroke that bolts out of the water. ▪ Larne lad Fergus Bailie last night swam the fastest 100 metre breaststroke by a 13-year-old in Ulster. ▪ On Thursday night, she was happy ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's vb. to swim using this stroke
Usage examples of breaststroke.
I could do a passa6reestyle and sidestroke, the backstroke was easy, but I could not master the breaststroke.
Together they breaststroked down the beach, moving swiftly with the tide.
And for the first time I swam with him, my small breaststrokes paralleling his long ones.
She laughed and swam away on her back for a few feet, then circled around, breaststroking quietly to him.
He used a hard breaststroke to get over to the bag, then grabbed a strap.
Aria teetered in the stern as she pushed the boat deeper into the inlet, using the oar like a barge pole, Cozro could swim: his third splashing breaststroke brought him almost close enough to grab the gunwale.
Ned breaststroked out toward the boat, swimming very quietly, keeping his head above water.
Flossie breaststroked quietly around for a minute before swimming to the poolside nearest Shorty, where she rested, arms folded on the tile border, chin resting on her arms.
Ethridge does the breaststroke through clouds of flies to gather up all the cuts of meat that were on the chopping blocks when the place was evacuated.
He tried to teach my parents to swim, but he never got them to go beyond wading up to their knees at the beach and making ludicrous round motions with their arms, which, if they were practising the breaststroke, made them look as if they were walking through a jungle, spreading the tall grass ahead of them, or, if it was the front crawl, as if they were running down a hill and flailing their arms so as not to fall.
She tested her main and extra regulators, then pushed away from the stairs, turned, and slowly breaststroked into the pondlike lagoon.