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Backstroke vs Backstroker - What's the difference?

backstroke | backstroker |

As nouns the difference between backstroke and backstroker

is that backstroke is a swimming stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards while backstroker is a swimmer who uses the style backstroke.

As a verb backstroke

is to swim the backstroke.

backstroke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A swimming stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
  • (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)

    • Synonyms

    * back crawl

    Related terms

    * breaststroke * butterfly stroke * sidestroke

    Verb

    (backstrok)
  • To swim the backstroke.

    • See also

    * front crawl * freestyle * medley * Trudgen

    backstroker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A swimmer who uses the style backstroke
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=August 28, author=Ted Kleine, title=Pool Hustler, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=I swam differently from the other backstrokers ," he says. " }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=July 13, author=Karen Crouse, title=Wooed by Netherlands, a Swimmer Stays for the Challenge, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Matt Grevers was struggling to keep his head above water in a deep pool of backstrokers when a coach from the Netherlands offered him a preserver. }}