noun
Meaning 1
A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Phrase guide
dog paddle
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Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To swim in dog paddle style.
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noun
Meaning 3
an elementary swimming stroke imitating a swimming dog
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: swimming stroke
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кучешката (kučeškata) — swimming stroke
- Chinese Cantonese: 狗仔式 (gau2 zai2 sik1) — swimming stroke
- Chinese: 狗仔泅 (káu-á-siû) — swimming stroke
- Chinese Mandarin: 狗爬式游泳 (gǒupáshì yóuyǒng) — swimming stroke
- Chinese Mandarin: 狗刨 (gǒupáo) — swimming stroke
- Czech: čubička — swimming stroke
- Danish: hundesvømning — swimming stroke
- Finnish: koiranuinti — swimming stroke
- Finnish: koira — swimming stroke
- Māori: kau kiore — swimming stroke
- Polish: piesek — swimming stroke
- Portuguese: cachorrinho — swimming stroke
- Swedish: hundsim — swimming stroke