strides
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Trygstad, an avid fly fisherman, has long observed water striders and would like to further study their movements.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Sure enough, when he and his colleagues removed the fans, the water striders couldn’t move as quickly or turn as sharply.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 8, 2024
There were migrating birds in the trees, water striders in the stream and all sorts of invertebrates in the fallen leaves.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2021
The big puzzle was how striders, especially baby striders, could accelerate to start moving and keep moving fast enough to generate the water ripples that propel them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2018
He had seen water striders, those insects that support themselves in swift streams on long legs kept wide apart.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
