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Swimming Definitions

Action

Aerobic

Aids

Alternate stokes

Anaerobic

Aquatic

Arm-up start

Back-paddle

Backstroke

Ballistic

Bent arm

Biathlon

Bilateral

Bow wave

Breaststroke

Broken swim

Buoyancy

Butterfly

Catch point

Catch up

Cross-over kick

Disqualification

Dog paddle

Dolphin kick

Dorsi-flexed

Drag

Drill

Elbow leading

Endurance

Entry

Explosive breathing

Extension

False start

False-start rope

Fast pool

FINA

Finals

Flags

Flight

Flutter kick

Flyer

Freestyle

Freestyle relays

Front crawl

Glide

Grab start

Heats

High elbow

High-lift style

Hungarian repetitions

Hypothermia

Hypoxic training

Inertia

Interval training

Intoeing

Keyhole pull

Kick

Kickboard

Lanes

Leg

Leisure pool

Lifesaving

Long course

Long-distance swimming

Medley events

Meet

Negative split

Olympic pool

Over-center entry

Oxygen debt

Physiology

Pitch

Placing judges

Plantar-flexion

Prone

Propulsion

Pull

Pullbuoy

Pulling

Push-and-glide position

Recorder

Recovery

Reducing swims

Relays

Resistance

S-pull

Screw kick

Sculling

Semifinal

Short course

Sidestroke

Simultaneous strokes

Sitting dive

Slow pool

Spearhead principle

Splits

Sprint training

Standing dive

Start

Starter

Starting block

Straight arm

Stroke cycle

Stroke judges

Sweep

Swimming

Time control swim

Timed final

Timing system

Touch

Track start

Transition

Treading water

Tumble turn

Turn

Undulation

Wedge kick

Whip kick

Wide entry

Wind-up start

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