Definitions
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- noun A person swimming using the
breaststroke .
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- noun someone who swims the breaststroke
Etymologies
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Examples
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The 24-year-old breaststroker underwent the operation at Emory University Hospital, said his agent, Evan Morgenstein.
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Led by sprinter Libby Trickett and breaststroker Leisel Jones, the Australian women could, like the U.S. men, post 1-2 finishes and be a force in the relays.
Highs, lows for Team USA at swimming, track and field trials
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These three are a bunch of show-offs, so any mere breaststroker will quickly find themselves sinking.
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Within barely an hour of the first gun, a world record had fallen to a Belgian breaststroker.
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There's a saying among swim coaches, "If the kid can't swim, make him a breaststroker."
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Australia was disqualified in qualifying for an exchange violation between its first and second legs — from backstroker Joshua Watson to breaststroker Jim Piper.
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NEW BEGINNINGS The first semester of the 1993/94 season saw one of the Swedes return home, the other injure his knee and the third male swimmer fall ill, which meant that I ended up being Jan's only breaststroker - a blessing in disguise as it allowed us the time to build that all-important swimmer-coach relationship.
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His early attitude was based on the behaviour of the late Canadian breaststroker Victor Davis.
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Sarah's victory over me at a local pre-Olympic race was the catalyst for the media to declare she had taken over the mantle as South Africa's premier female breaststroker.
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I went to Kenneth Cawood, the men's breaststroker in the squad and asked him what "drill" meant.
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