Swimming – fill the gaps with these words:

treading water;  sidestroke;  individual medley (IM); dog paddle;  false start; dolphin kick;
trudgen crawl; breaststroke;  flutter kick ; scissors kick ; relay ; anchor ; sculling; freestyle,
free, front crawl or forward crawl; medley relay; frog kick, or whip kick; butterfly or fly; leg ;
backstroke, racing backstroke, or back; fly, back, breast, free; synchronized swimming;
recreational strokes; drowning moth;

Swimming can be done at the surface on your stomach, back or side, as well as underwater.

The strokes (methods of swimming) used in competitions are:

_______________is swum on the stomach, and uses a pull (arm motion) of both arms at once, and a
kick (leg motion) of both legs at once. The kick is called a _________________.

________________ is the fastest stroke swum on the back. The arms alternate their pull and the legs
alternate their kick. This kick is called a ______________.

________________ uses a pull with both arms at once, and the arms stay in the water. Likewise both
legs kick at the same time using a ______________. This was the main stroke for competition in the
1800s, before freestyle was developed.

_______________ is the fastest stroke. The arms alternate on the pull and come all the way out of
the water. People who swim this style  well do not lift their heads to get a breath, but only turn
towards the side.

Also at swim races, the ________________ is swum by one person versus other swimmers, with the
strokes above, in the order described above. Sometimes the names are shortened to _______________.
The same distance of each is swum, totaling 100 yards, 200 yards/meters or 400 yards/meters.

A _______________ is swum by four members of the same team against four members of each other team
at a race. A freestyle relay would have each swim a distance of freestyle, and as they get to the
side of the pool, the next person dives in and starts swimming the same stroke/distance.

A __________________ would have four swimmers each do one distance of the IM strokes in the order
Back, Breast, Fly, Free.

A ________________ is one section of a relay.

The ______________ is the last swimmer in a relay.

________________ include all of the competitive strokes (but any of these can be used in a
‘fun’competition)

________________ is swum on the right or left side. The leading arm pulls from in front of the
swimmer down to about chest level, the other arm starts the pull just above where the first arm
finishes and pulls down to the hips. The kick is called a ______________.

_____________ is a human swimming like a hound.

______________ is freestyle arm pull with a sidestroke scissors kick, sometimes with some flutter
kick as well.

_______________ is what a swimmer’s first attempt at butterfly often looks like.

_______________ is not a stroke. It is a set of leg actions and arm actions used to keep a
swimmer’s head above the water while the body is vertical, (as opposed to swimming, when the body
is horizontal). The hand motion, when it is used, is _____________. It can be used alone to help
maintain a steady position and/or horizontal position in the water during a float.

________________, the water ballet performed by a single swimmer, by pairs or groups of up to eight
swimmers, depends in part on strong sculling skills.

______________ - a situation in which one or more swimmers leaves the blocks before the starting
signal