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breast-stroke

US/ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/

breast-stroke is the alternative form of breaststroke.

Meaning of breaststroke

Noun

breaststroke (plural breaststrokes)

  1. 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

See all 2 meanings of breaststroke

Forms of breast-stroke

Noun
pluralbreast-strokes
Verb
third-person singular presentbreast-strokes
present participlebreast-stroking
past participlebreast-stroked
pastbreast-stroked

Origin of breast-stroke

From breast + stroke.

Words formed from breast-stroke

  • breast-stroker

Questions about breast-stroke

What is breast-stroke the alternative form of?
Breast-stroke is the alternative form of breaststroke.
How do you pronounce breast-stroke?
Breast-stroke is pronounced /ˈbɹɛstˌstɹoʊk/ (US).

Words near breast-stroke in the dictionary

  1. breast-girdles
  2. breast-girth
  3. breast-girths
  4. breast-strap
  5. breast-straps
  6. breast-stroke
  7. breast-stroked
  8. breast-strokes
  9. breast-stroking
  10. breast-work
  11. Breasta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breast-stroke (page history and authors); breaststroke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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