English [ edit ]
butterfly stroke (plural butterfly strokes )
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 [ edit ]
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 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 )