butterfly stroke

English

A man swimming with the butterfly stroke

Noun

butterfly stroke (plural butterfly strokes)

2. A swimming stroke in which the body is prone, the arms are moved in simultaneous circles, and the feet are kicked up and down.
   • 2009, Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, “Butterfly”, in Mastering Swimming‎^[1], →ISBN, page 56:

     As you begin to integrate butterfly into your workouts, begin with two to four full butterfly strokes from the wall, then swim easy freestyle for the remainder of the length.

Translations

swimming stroke

• Bulgarian: бътерфла́й m (bǎterfláj)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蝶式 (dip⁶ sik¹)

  Mandarin: 蝶泳 (zh) (diéyǒng), 蝶式 (zh) (diéshì)

• Czech: motýlek m, delfín (cs) m
• Danish: butterfly (da) c
• Dutch: vlinderslag (nl) m
• Faroese: firvaldssvimjing f
• Finnish: perhosuinti (fi), perhonen (fi)
• French: papillon (fr) m
• German: Schmetterling (de) m, Delfin (de) m
• Greek: πεταλούδα (el) f (petaloúda)
• Hungarian: pillangóúszás (hu)
• Icelandic: flugsund (is) n
• Italian: farfalla (it) f
• Japanese: バタフライ (ja) (batafurai), バッタ (ja) (batta), バタ (bata)
• Latvian: tauriņstils m
• Macedonian: де́лфин (mk) m (délfin)
• Maltese: qadfa butterfly
• Maori: kau aihe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: butterfly (no) m

  Nynorsk: butterfly m

• Polish: delfin (pl) m, delfinek m, motyl (pl) m, motylek (pl) m, styl motylkowy m
• Portuguese: nado borboleta m, estilo borboleta m, mariposa (pt) f, estilo de mariposa m
• Romanian: fluture (ro) m
• Russian: баттерфля́й (ru) m (battɛrfljáj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: делфин m, лептир m

  Roman: delfin (sh) m, leptir (sh) m

• Slovak: motýlik m
• Spanish: mariposa (es) f
• Swahili: kipepeo (sw)
• Swedish: fjärilsim (sv) n
• Turkish: kelebek (tr)
• Yiddish: פֿלאַטערל־שוווּם m (flaterl-shvum)