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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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MaxineThere 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.
The four competitive swimming strokes are:
front crawl
butterfly
breathstroke
backstroke
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