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

Other flies fell into my tea, and did the breast-stroke for the side of the mug.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

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

"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