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butterfly stroke
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swimming stroke swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously
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Vinony's link graph records 3,243 inbound references to butterfly stroke, and connects out to swimming stroke, turn and United States.
It is catalogued under topics including Butterfly stroke and Swimming styles.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports discipline
- Subclass of
- swimming stroke
- Based on
- breaststroke
- Sport
- competitive swimming
- Image
- US Marines butterfly stroke.jpg
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- short name
- Butterfly
- Commons category
- Butterfly (swimming style)
- topic's main category
- Category:Butterfly stroke
- uses
- arm
- regulated by
- World Aquatics
- time of discovery or invention
- 1930-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Butterfly stroke
Butterfly (shortened to fly) is a swimming stroke swum on the front, with both arms moving symmetrically, accompanied by the butterfly kick (also known as the "dolphin kick") along with the movement of the hips and chest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “butterfly stroke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.