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dogpaddle

dogpaddle is the alternative form of dog paddle.

Meaning of dog paddle

Noun

dog paddle (plural dog paddles)

  1. A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.
    • The self-taught small boy usually begins with the so-called “dog-paddle.” There his instinct is thoroughly right, and the method is especially valuable for children too young to do much formal practicing. Dog-paddle is the most natural of all strokes, and therefore the easiest of all to learn.1908 April, Edwin T. Brewster, “The Bathtub Swimming School”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 46, page 387

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Forms of dogpaddle

Noun
pluraldogpaddles
Verb
third-person singular presentdogpaddles
present participledogpaddling
past participledogpaddled
pastdogpaddled

Questions about dogpaddle

What is dogpaddle the alternative form of?
Dogpaddle is the alternative form of dog paddle.

Words near dogpaddle in the dictionary

  1. dogote
  2. dogotes
  3. dogoyaro
  4. dogoyaros
  5. dogpack
  6. dogpaddle
  7. dogpaddled
  8. dogpaddles
  9. dogpaddling
  10. dogpark
  11. dogparks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogpaddle (page history and authors); dog paddle (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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