Meaning

1 senses
  1. 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

    Brust, Brustschwimmen

    брассbrass

    a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom taught me how to swim the breaststroke.

  2. I can do the breaststroke but not the backstroke.

  3. I can do breaststroke but not backstroke.

    deBrustschwimmen kann ich, aber Rückenschwimmen nicht. — raggione

  4. I can do the breaststroke, but not the backstroke.

    deIch kann brustschwimmen, aber nicht rückenkraulen. — MUIRIEL

Translations

8 languages
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Deutsch
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Origin

From breast + stroke.

From breast + stroke.

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Forms

plural: breaststrokes
Singularbreaststroke
Pluralbreaststrokes

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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