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  • n  a swimming stroke in which the arms move forward and backward while the legs do a scissors kick

  • There he donned a pair of trunks and splashed in the coral-green waters, using the peculiar head-out-of-water stroke he calls the "Missouri sidestroke.
  • When the yacht anchored in Delaware Bay he went swimming, employing a sedate sidestroke which enabled him to keep his glasses unsplashed.
  • They used an antiquated sidestroke and were anxious to learn how to do the crawl.
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  • Aquatics-Adult Intermediate
    Designed for adults who are confident in the water. Oppurtunity to advance and refine swim strokes; freestyle, backstroke, and breatstroke with introduction to butterfly and sidestroke. Surface diving, open/flip turns, deep end work, and treading water are integrated into the program.
    June 11, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh
  • Aquatics-seahorse - Aquatics-seahorse
    Level 4 is a stroke improvement course, which focuses on developing confidence in front and back crawl, improving aquatic skills such as diving and turns, and introduction of elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke and buterfly. Participants must be able to swim front crawl and backstroke indepently for 15 yds to participate.
    June 11, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh

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