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Freestyle: A stoke involving the constant kick of your feetwhile your arms move like a zipper up your side and over your head. In this stroke you breate to alternating sides and do flip turns.
Backstroke: A stroke involving the constant kicking motion of your feet and your arms moving in a propeler motion on your back. In this stroke you breathe whenever because your face is out of the water and also do flip turns.
Breaststroke: A stroke that involves your legs kicking by coming up to your butt then forcefully coming down then your arms move in a circle from in front of your head down to your bust line. In this stroke you breathe after every pull, if you don't, you will be disqualified! Also, you must touch all walls with two hands at the same time.
Butterfly: A stroke involving your feet dolphin kicking once and then they kick at the same time as your arms come out of the water above your bach, enter a little to the sides of your head and then make a keyhole with your arms in the water. In this troke, you breathe after every two kicks and also must touch with two hands.
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∙ 6y agoThere are four strokes in competitive swimming. The most commonly used is freestyle or "front crawl". You swim it on your stomach with a flutter kick, alternating arms, and breathing to the side. Backstroke is swum on your back with a flutterkick and alternating arms. Breatstroke is swum on you stomach with a "frog kick" and arms pulling together is a circular motion. Butterfly is swum on your stomach with a dolphin kick and arms pulling together. There are other strokes that are not swum competitively such as sidestroke or elementary backstroke.
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∙ 8y agoThe four competitive swimming strokes are:
front crawl
butterfly
breathstroke
backstroke
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∙ 13y agoFreestyle, Backstroke, Butterfly and Breaststroke.
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∙ 13y agoButterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle
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∙ 13y agoButterfly ,Backstroke <Breaststroke , And freestyle
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∙ 12y agobackstroke,freestyle,breaststroke,butterfly
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∙ 12y agofreestyle, backstroke, butterfly and discus
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∙ 8y agoThe four basic strokes in swimming are butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
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What are the different swimming strokes?
The four strokes are butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, and freestyle. (freestyle can be about anything but what you will see in the Olympics and in most competitive events is the Australian crawl)
What are the two types of strokes?
There are four main strokes in swimming. There is Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle.
What are the 5 swimming strokes?
There are not 5 official strokes. There are only 4. They are butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
What are all the moves in swimming?
in swimming thre are 4 different strokes. butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.
Swim is an act of swimming?
Yes! That's right! To swim is an act of Swimming. 4 strokes, Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststoke and Butterfly. --
Are there any other strokes apart from the four most common strokes in swimming?
No, The Only Strokes Are The Four Main Strokes (Freestyle,Backstroke,Breastroke,and Butterfly). However There Are Drills That Competitive Swimmers Use, But They Are NotRegular Strokes. [;Yes !Dog Paddle, Old English backstroke, sidestroke.
What is the summary of swimming?
swimming is basically moving around in the water to get from one side of the pool to the other. there are 4 strokes: breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, and butterfly.
What are the 4 feature swimming styls or strokes in the Olympics?
They are butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. It is the same in the Olympics.
What do all the swimming styles mean?
There are four swimming styles or strokes which are as follows: 1. Freestyle. 2. Backstroke. 3. Chest stroke. 4. Butterfly.
What are the different swimming style?
The swimming strokes are:Frontcrawl,Butterfly ,Backstroke and breastroke
Do you capitalize the first letter in swimming strokes?
No, the swimming strokes are generally not capitalized (expect when at the beginning of a sentence or phrase)
Will swimming help in lumbar lordosis?
Depend on swimming strokes, with strokes that side or back pointing to bottom should be good exercise for lumbar lordosis. But face pointing to bottom strokes may cause increase the overarching of a lower back, thus for freestyle and breast strokes if pain is noticed then try other strokes.
