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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbækˌstɹoʊk/

名詞

backstroke (plural backstrokes)

1. A backhanded stroke or blow.
   • 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.1:

     He observed that Cid Ruy-dias was an excellent knight; but not equal to the Lord of the Flaming-sword, who with one back-stroke [translating revés] had cut two fierce and monstrous giants through the middle.

2. (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.

   Hypernym: stroke

   Coordinate terms: breaststroke, sidestroke, butterfly stroke

   Near-synonym: back crawl

3. (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle.

   Coordinate term: handstroke

派生語

関連する語

(backhanded stroke or blow):

動詞

backstroke (third-person singular simple present backstrokes, present participle backstroking, simple past and past participle backstroked)

1. (transitive) To hit with a backstroke.
2. (swimming, intransitive) To swim the backstroke.

参考

Further reading

• backstroke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia