Backstroke

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A swimming stroke performed on one's back, especially one using alternating overarm strokes and a flutter kick.
  • noun. A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.
  • noun. A backhanded stroke or motion.
  • noun. A stroke or motion in the direction of an original starting point.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A blow or stroke in return.
  • noun. A backhanded stroke; a back-hander.
  • noun. In telegraphy, the return-stroke of the lever in a telegraph-sounder.
  • noun. Diastolic impulse of the heart, a faint beat occurring as the blood enters the ventricles.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back. It is usually executed with backward-moving circular arm strokes and a flutter kick.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A swimming stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
  • noun. The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
  • verb. To swim the backstroke.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. swim on one's back
  • noun. a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
  • Word Usage
    ""It's a good confidence booster to know that the backstroke is there," Phelps said."
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