breast-stroke

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Peaty has a similar problem to Monye - and will have to get his body used to a little less breast-stroke, a little more ballroom.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

I kept following the current, swimming breast-stroke, trying to keep my head above water.

From National Geographic • Dec. 16, 2017

The lessons start with simple movements practised before your mirror—holding out your hand for a coin, the breast-stroke in swimming, etc.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair

"The flowing tide" fails him, but side-stroke and breast-stroke Alternately serve him; fatigued but unhurt, Like C�SAR, he swims.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 by Various

Ten minutes later, without help of the glass—his hand being too shaky to hold it steady—he saw the doctor in the water below him, swimming out to sea with a strong breast-stroke.

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir