backstroking

In a final attempt to keep going, I started backstroking.

Runners Jack Canfield 2010

In a final attempt to keep going, I started backstroking.

Runners Jack Canfield 2010

Several of the other racers were also backstroking, and they would start going sideways and even backwards.

Runners Jack Canfield 2010

Several of the other racers were also backstroking, and they would start going sideways and even backwards.

Runners Jack Canfield 2010

But now that Obama is backstroking towards the center right all his earlier statements just get flushed down the memory hole?

Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq: "I Reserve Right As Commander In Chief To Assess Situation" 2009

As to your backstroking accusation, for all the reasons I've laid out upthread, I think that any other answer to the question he was given would have been cynical political triangulation on his part.

Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq: "I Reserve Right As Commander In Chief To Assess Situation" 2009

Reading through Portfolio, I realized I was swimming in resentment like Scrooge McDuck backstroking through gold coins in his Money Vault.

Eric Dezenhall: Resentment and Consequences in the New Gilded Age 2008

“Back oars!” ordered Little, uselessly since the men had already ceased their rowing and were backstroking briskly, but the heavy whaleboat's momentum continued carrying it toward the ice.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

They pulled vigorously, backstroking; the ungainly raft plowed across the hardening current.

Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

Sorry. .but Davos has got to be the most useless, overhyped event for masturbatory backstroking to ever take place.

A More Somber World Economic Forum At Davos Michael Arrington 2005