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sidestroke
[ sahyd-strohk ]
noun
- a stroke in which the body is turned sideways in the water, the hands pull alternately, and the legs perform a scissors kick.
verb (used without object)
sidestroked, sidestroking.
- to swim the sidestroke.
sidestroke
/ ˈɪˌٰəʊ /
noun
- a type of swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies sideways in the water paddling with his arms and making a scissors kick with his legs
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But as he’s perfected what he calls a double-arm pull and a modified sidestroke, he’s toughened up all over.
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During these past several months, Teddy’s sidestroke performance makes me laugh several times daily.
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He was the lifeguard; she, the big-eyed beauty with long dark hair and a mean sidestroke.
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First they raced freestyle, then backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke.
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He was summoned to see the president — not in the Oval Office, but in the White House swimming pool, where he found the commander in chief doing a leisurely sidestroke — naked.
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