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

Go and do a quarter of a mile breast-stroke every day.

From The Way of an Eagle by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

These threshed the water in a sort of breast-stroke, propelling the body forward.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry