Australian crawl
Alternating arm stroke
The Australian crawl is a swimming stroke performed face-down, with alternating overarm movements and a flutter kick.
Developed and popularized by Australian swimmers in the early twentieth century, it became the standard freestyle technique and the fastest way to swim.
Now usually called simply the crawl or freestyle: She swam the 100-meter freestyle in under a minute.
- swimMove through water
- flutter kickAlternating leg strokes while swimming
- racingSpeed competition sport
- Olympic swimmingElite international pool racing
- freestyleWithout prescribed technique
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Australian crawlbackstroke
Supine aquatic locomotion
back crawl · dog paddle · treading water · floating · breaststroke
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