dog paddleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• doggy paddle
• dogpaddle
• dog-paddle

名詞

dog paddle (複数形 dog paddles)

1. A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.
   • 1908, Edwin T. Brewster, “The Bathtub Swimming School,” Good Housekeeping, Volume 46, April 1908, p. 387,^[1]

     The self-taught small boy usually begins with the so-called “dog-paddle.” There his instinct is thoroughly right, and the method is especially valuable for children too young to do much formal practicing. Dog-paddle is the most natural of all strokes, and therefore the easiest of all to learn.

   • 1949, “Exit Growling,” Time, 23 April, 1949,^[2]

     He would still go down for his daily dog paddle in the faculty swimming pool, and would still nibble the raisins he likes to keep in his briefcase.

動詞

dog paddle (三人称単数 現在形 dog paddles, 現在分詞 dog paddling, 過去形および過去分詞形 dog paddled)

1. To swim in dog paddle style.
   • 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling, Chapter 11,^[3]

     He pretended that an alligator was behind him and swam desperately. He passed one spot and then, laboriously, another, dog-paddling.

   • 1965, “Dream of a Bigger Bone,” Time, 23 April, 1965,^[4]

     Last week, as the latest escapee dog paddled his way to freedom across the Spandau ship canal, the Grepos machine-pistoled him down with seven slugs. Sinking in mid stream, he became the 58th victim—and the first dog—to die since 1961 while trying to enter West Berlin from the East German democratic workers’ paradise.

   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 2, p. 31,

     They were of course distantly related to Eliza and me, too, since our Vermont ancestors had once been content to dogpaddle endlessly, so to speak, in the same tiny genetic pool.

Further reading

• dog paddle on Wikipedia.

名詞

dog-paddle (複数形 dog-paddles)

1. A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.

動詞

dog-paddle (三人称単数 現在形 dog-paddles, 現在分詞 dog-paddling, 過去形および過去分詞形 dog-paddled)

1. To swim using the dog paddle stroke.

動詞

dogpaddle (三人称単数 現在形 dogpaddles, 現在分詞 dogpaddling, 過去形および過去分詞形 dogpaddled)

1. Alternative form of dog paddle