Definition of "sidestroke" []

• A swimming stroke in which a person swims on one side and thrusts the arms forward and downward alternately while performing a scissors kick. (noun)
• To swim with a sidestroke. (verb-intransitive)

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• "I fought the cold and the swell and built a kind of sidestroke rhythm."
• "Although it's out of fashion, I find sidestroke is by far the best for sea swimming – there's no putting your head in the water, so breathing and vision are easy: useful, as Byron would not have had goggles."
• ""I was swimming sidestroke, and began to notice a strange fluctuating and hissing noise under my submerged left ear; it was very eerie, like an echo in a vast dark room below, and I thought it must have been the grinding of pebbles and silt at the bottom of the sea.""