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 Translation for 'sidestroke' from English to French
sport
brasse {f} indienne [aussi : nage indienne]
sidestroke [also: side stroke]
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Translation for 'sidestroke' from English to French

sidestroke [also: side stroke]
brasse {f} indienne [aussi : nage indienne]sport
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Usage Examples English
  • The combat side stroke is a relaxing and very efficient swim stroke that is an updated version of the traditional sidestroke.
  • He writes the Sidestroke cartoon in the "Sunday Times" with Janet Brown.
  • There are four main rescue strokes: front crawl, breaststroke, inverted breaststroke, and sidestroke.
  • The sidestroke is a swimming stroke, so named because the swimmer lies on one's side with asymmetric arm and leg motion.
  • In non-competitive swimming, there are some swimming strokes including sidestroke.

  • However, Trudgen applied the more common sidestroke (scissor) kick instead of the flutter kick used by the Native Americans.
  • The trudgen is a swimming stroke sometimes known as the "racing stroke", or the "East Indian stroke". It is named after the English swimmer John Trudgen (1852–1902) and evolved out of sidestroke.
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