From breast + stroke.
Animation of breast stroke, side view
Animation of breast stroke, top view
breaststroke (plural breaststrokes)
- A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's
swimming stroke
- Afrikaans: borsslag
- Albanian: bretkosë (sq) f
- Bulgarian: бруст m (brust)
- Catalan: braça f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 蛙式 (waa1 sik1)
- Hokkien: 四跤仔泅 (zh-min-nan) (sì-kha-á-siû), 水雞泅／水鸡泅 (zh-min-nan) (chúi-ke-siû, chúi-koe-siû), 水雞仔泅／水鸡仔泅 (chúi-ke-á-siû, chúi-koe-á-siû), 蛤仔泅 (kap-á-siû), 田蛤仔泅 (chhân-kap-á-siû)
- Mandarin: 蛙泳 (zh) (wāyǒng), 俯泳 (fǔyǒng), 胸泳 (zh) (xiōngyǒng), 蛙式 (wāshì)
- Czech: prsa (cs) (plural)
- Danish: brystsvømning (da)
- Dutch: schoolslag (nl) m
- Esperanto: brustonaĝado
- Finnish: rintauinti (fi)
- French: brasse (fr) f
- German: Brust (de) f, Brustschwimmen (de) n
- Hindi: ब्रेस्टस्ट्रोक m (bresṭasṭrok)
- Hungarian: mellúszás (hu)
- Icelandic: bringusund (is) n
- Irish: snámh brollaigh m, bang brollaigh m
- Japanese: 平泳ぎ (ja) (ひらおよぎ, hiraoyogi)
- Maori: kau āpuru, kau hōkaikai
- Norwegian: brystsvømning
- Polish: żabka (pl) f, styl klasyczny m
- Portuguese: nado de peito m, bruços (pt) m pl, estilo de bruços m
- Romanian: bras (ro) n
- Russian: брасс (ru) m (brass)
- Spanish: braza (es) m, estilo braza m
- Swedish: bröstsim (sv) n
- Turkish: kurbağalama (tr)
- Welsh: nofio broga m
- Yiddish: זשאַבעשוווּם m (zhabeshvum), קלאַפֿטער m (klafter), קלאַפֿטערשוווּם m (klaftershvum)
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breaststroke (third-person singular simple present breaststrokes, present participle breaststroking, simple past and past participle breaststroked)
- to swim using this stroke
to swim using this stroke
