It was easiest with the sidestroke, but then he could watch to one side only.

He swam sidestroke, which let him keep one ear out of the water and talk, after a fashion.

She began to crawl along in a sidestroke motion.

Using an easy sidestroke, she swam toward the stairs.

In the sidestroke, the swimmer lies on one side.

Greg began to move, a tortuously slow sidestroke, kicking hard with his feet.

Doc had one arm across the captain's chest and was pulling him along with a slow but powerful sidestroke.

He struck out for the edge with a strong sidestroke, towing Tatiana along.

I fought the cold and the swell and built a kind of sidestroke rhythm.

Quinn started swimming for the shore with a powerful sidestroke, dragging the rope behind him.

Shelby splashed water at him and, using a clean sidestroke, swam over to Calhoun.

And he plunges forward into a sidestroke.

He tried a sidestroke but began sinking, so he went back to his crippled dog paddle.

Swimming strokes including the sidestroke incorporate a leg movement often known as a 'scissor kick'.

"You've got a pretty good sidestroke," Qwilleran said.

When he was deep enough to swim, he went into modified sidestroke, so he could keep the knapsack clear of the water.

He slammed a sidestroke into Haider's ribs, and was rewarded with a muffled grunt of pain.

Goto Dengo settles into a slow, easy sidestroke.

Trent pushed off from the bank, swimming with his bound hands in an adaptation of sidestroke that was clumsy and inefficient.

Sidestroke evolved in ancient times from swimmers who discovered that it was painful to swim breaststroke with the head above the water.

Beginners often prefer the backstroke and sidestroke, which are less difficult and don't require breathing out underwater.

The CSS is a mix of sidestroke, freestyle and breaststroke.

Durell swam hard and fast, using a sidestroke because of the narrow confines of the conduit.

As she came back down the pool, this time in sidestroke, she saw Kevil Mahoney come out of the house.

To swim for any length of time, I'm usually forced to shift from stroke to stroke - the crawl, the sidestroke, the breaststroke, rest.