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the backstroke
noun
A swimming stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
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Lochte chose the backstroke.
The backstroke lengths first.
The backstroke may be Phelps's biggest hurdle.
The backstroke swimmers take to the pool.
The backstroke began to develop early in the 20th century.
12.59pm: Actually, the backstroke is quite silly too.
Shelley Winters could have done the backstroke in it.
She was good at the backstroke and breaststroke.
But it is the backstroke, Coughlin's signature race, that puts her most memorably on display.
He stayed underwater for a long time and then started doing the backstroke.
"With the backstroke, being on your back, you don't have as much hyperextension".
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