Usually means: Swimming stroke performed on back.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word backstroke:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. backstroke: Merriam-Webster
  2. backstroke, the backstroke: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backstroke: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backstroke: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backstroke: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backstroke, backstroke: Wordnik
  7. backstroke: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backstroke: Wiktionary
  9. backstroke: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backstroke: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backstroke: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backstroke: Dictionary.com
  13. Backstroke (album), Backstroke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. backstroke: Rhymezone
  15. backstroke: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. backstroke: FreeDictionary.org
  17. backstroke: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. backstroke: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. backstroke: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. backstroke: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. backstroke: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backstroke: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backstroke: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backstroke: Sports Definitions

(Note: See backstroked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A backhanded stroke or blow.
noun:  (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
noun:  (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
verb:  To swim the backstroke.

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