breast-stroke

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Peaty has a similar problem to Monye - and will have to get his body used to a little less breast-stroke, a little more ballroom.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

I kept following the current, swimming breast-stroke, trying to keep my head above water.

From National Geographic • Dec. 16, 2017

These threshed the water in a sort of breast-stroke, propelling the body forward.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry

He swims with smooth breast-stroke, his feet and hands below the water, but his wings raised above.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James

Weights pulled at the arms as they swept back the water in the breast-stroke.

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod