Sentence examples for swimming backstroke from inspiring English sources

At one point she was swimming backstroke to fend off the jellyfish with her cap-covered head.

And there, far out, so far I could barely see her little head, was a woman swimming backstroke and singing at the top of her lungs.

I sat in the gorgeous Aquatic Centre and watched the athletes file out one by one to their stations: the guy with one leg, another with no arms (key, in my experience, for swimming backstroke), someone else rolling on in a wheelchair and taking his place alongside a competitor with no immediately obvious impairment.

The pain of the injury restricted him to swimming backstroke for four months, and his times steadily improved during this period under the guidance of John Rigby at the Valley Pool.

Begin swimming backstroke.

When swimming backstroke, you should not be swimming on your back.

"I don't know if I would say that I enjoyed it," said Ms. Davidson, who swam backstroke at Ocean Township High School and Old Dominion University.

Then inside, Fran and I sat on the bleachers while Lili stood at the guardrail, watching MeiLin swim backstroke, crookedly but with determination.

When I cast back to an event from my past – let's say the first time I ever swam backstroke unaided in the sea – I don't just conjure up dates and times and places (what psychologists call "semantic memory").

If not for Phelps, that achievement might have dominated more conversations here along with Natalie Coughlin's six medals in six events (Coughlin swam backstroke on the first leg of the medley relay for the United States on Sunday).

He defeated Cielo, who then decided not swim backstroke anymore.