No matter how hard I practiced, I wasn't able to do the backstroke.
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Backstroke
//ˈbækˌstɹoʊk//
Synonyms for "backstroke" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
30 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- гръб noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 背泳 noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 仰泳 noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- 背泳 noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Dutch
1 entries- rugslag noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Finnish
1 entries- selkäuinti noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
French
2 entries- dos noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- dos crawlé noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
German
2 entries- Rückenkraulen noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- Rückenschwimmen noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Hungarian
1 entries- hátúszás noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Japanese
1 entries- 背泳 noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Māori
4 entries- kau tīraha noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- kauhoe tīraha noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- kau tīraha verb (to swim backstroke)
- kauhoe tīraha verb (to swim backstroke)
Polish
1 entries- styl grzbietowy noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Portuguese
4 entries- costas noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- estilo de costas noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- nado de costas noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- nadar de costas verb (to swim backstroke)
Russian
1 entries- пла́вание на спине́ noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Spanish
2 entries- dorso noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- estilo espalda noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Swedish
1 entries- ryggsim noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Tagalog
2 entries- balangay noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- himbalangay noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Welsh
1 entries- nofio cefn noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
Yiddish
2 entries- נאַזנשוווּם noun (a swimming stroke swum on one's back)
- שווימען נאַזנדיק verb (to swim backstroke)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"Waitress, what's this fly doing in my soup?" "Looks to me to be backstroke, sir!"
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I can do breaststroke but not backstroke.
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I can do the breaststroke but not the backstroke.
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