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Backstroke

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Sports A swimming stroke performed on one's back, especially one using alternating overarm strokes and a flutter kick.

n. Sports A race or a leg of a race in which this stroke is swum.

n. A backhanded stroke or motion.

n. A stroke or motion in the direction of an original starting point: a saw that cuts on the backstroke.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A swimming stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.

n. The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)

v. To swim the backstroke.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back. It is usually executed with backward-moving circular arm strokes and a flutter kick.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A blow or stroke in return.

n. A backhanded stroke; a back-hander.

n. In telegraphy, the return-stroke of the lever in a telegraph-sounder.

n. Diastolic impulse of the heart, a faint beat occurring as the blood enters the ventricles.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. swim on one's back

n. a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back

Word Usage

""It's a good confidence booster to know that the backstroke is there," Phelps said."

Verb Form

backstrokes

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

swim swimming stroke

Cross Reference

Trudgen medley freestyle front crawl

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

back crawl

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

breaststroke sidestroke recordholder freestyle thestate