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doggy paddle

British

noun

a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his front, paddles his hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his legs up and down

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verb

(intr) to swim using the doggy paddle

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Mr. Keneally said the robots are also capable of going underwater, and Ghost Robotics can craft software teaching it how to doggy paddle through water.

From Washington Times ● May 11, 2022

If you can flail, you can doggy paddle.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

Not that he has a particular stroke – he swims with a sort-of lopsided doggy paddle.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016

There was no reason to think his latest contest would be anything other than a cakewalk, especially when he heard his rival's chosen stroke was the doggy paddle.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2014

I, whose prowess in the water barely transcended a doggy paddle, undertake a swim of such scale that it could be traced on the map!

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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