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
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
His breast-stroke was a thing to see and wonder at.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
"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