sidestroke
noun
side·stroke
ˈsīd-ˌstrōk 
: a swimming stroke which is executed on the side and in which the arms are swept in separate strokes towards the feet and downward and the legs do a scissors kick
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The first event in the test is a 10-lap swim using sidestroke, which Coral achieves in 9:23.
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Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
In mid-August 2018, Dr. Bill Lytton, a computational neuroscientist and physician at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, was swimming south from Longnook Beach in Truro, alternating between sidestroke and breaststroke, moving parallel to shore in water about eight feet deep.
—New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
Morgan learned how to rely on the sidestroke and breaststroke, so his legs and arms never broke the surface of the water.
—Andrew Dubbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
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Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
In mid-August 2018, Dr. Bill Lytton, a computational neuroscientist and physician at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, was swimming south from Longnook Beach in Truro, alternating between sidestroke and breaststroke, moving parallel to shore in water about eight feet deep.
—New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
Morgan learned how to rely on the sidestroke and breaststroke, so his legs and arms never broke the surface of the water.
—Andrew Dubbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
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“Sidestroke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sidestroke. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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sidestroke
noun
side·stroke
-ˌstrōk
: a swimming stroke made while lying on the side by sweeping the arms downward and backward underwater while the legs do a scissors kick
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