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sidestroke

sidestroke noun: a swimming stroke swum on the swimmer's side.

Noun

sidestroke (plural sidestrokes)

  1. A swimming stroke swum on the swimmer's side.

Verb

sidestroke (third-person singular simple present sidestrokes, present participle sidestroking, simple past and past participle sidestroked)

  1. To swim sidestroke

sidestroke meaning in Tamil and Bengali

sidestroke in Tamil

புடைவீச்சடி, புடைத்தாக்கடி

sidestroke in Bengali

কাত হয়ে সাঁতার কাটা

Forms of sidestroke

Noun
pluralsidestrokes
Verb
third-person singular presentsidestrokes
present participlesidestroking
past participlesidestroked
pastsidestroked

Origin of sidestroke

From side + stroke.

Questions about sidestroke

What does sidestroke mean?
Sidestroke means a swimming stroke swum on the swimmer's side.
What is sidestroke in Tamil?
Sidestroke in Tamil is புடைவீச்சடி, புடைத்தாக்கடி. See Sidestroke meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sidestroke?
Sidestroke can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of sidestroke?
The plural of sidestroke is sidestrokes.

Words near sidestroke in the dictionary

  1. sidestream smoke
  2. sidestream smokes
  3. sidestreams
  4. sidestreet
  5. sidestreets
  6. sidestroke
  7. sidestrokes
  8. sideswept
  9. sideswipe
  10. sideswiped
  11. sideswiper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sidestroke (page history and authors); sidestroke (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sidestroke (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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