Usually means: Swimming stroke, arms push simultaneously.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word breaststroke:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. breaststroke: Merriam-Webster
  2. breaststroke, the breaststroke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breaststroke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breaststroke: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breaststroke: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breaststroke, breaststroke: Wordnik
  7. breaststroke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. breaststroke: Wiktionary
  9. breaststroke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. breaststroke: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. breaststroke: Dictionary.com
  12. breaststroke: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Breaststroke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. breaststroke: Rhymezone
  15. breaststroke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. breaststroke: FreeDictionary.org
  17. breaststroke: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. breaststroke: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. breaststroke: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. breaststroke: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Breaststroke: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Breaststroke: Sports Definitions

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▸ noun:  A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog's
▸ verb:  to swim using this stroke

Similar:
breastroke, breast, front crawl, crawl, frog kick, doggy paddle, back crawl, butterfly, dolphin kick, backcrawl, more...

Opposite:
backstroke, freestyle, butterfly

Types:
butterfly, backstroke, more...

Phrases:
World record progression 100 metres breaststroke, World record progression 50 metres breaststroke, World record progression 200 metres breaststroke, more...

Adjectives:
yard, slow, inverted, freestyle, easy, metre, strong, steady, conventional, powerful, swim



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Similar:
breastroke, breast, front crawl, crawl, frog kick, doggy paddle, back crawl, butterfly, dolphin kick, backcrawl, more...

Opposite:
backstroke, freestyle, butterfly

Types:
butterfly, backstroke, more...

Phrases:
World record progression 100 metres breaststroke, World record progression 50 metres breaststroke, World record progression 200 metres breaststroke, more...

Adjectives:
yard, slow, inverted, freestyle, easy, metre, strong, steady, conventional, powerful, swim



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