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Meaning of "frog kick" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FROG KICK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FROG KICK

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Frog kick is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FROG KICK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Frog kick

The frog kick is a swimming action sometimes used by scuba divers when they are swimming near a soft silty seabed or lakebed which they do not want to stir up damaging the visibility. It is like the swimming action of a frog or the leg part of the breaststroke. It is often used in cave diving and wreck diving where silt stirring can cause dramatic loss in visibility.

Definition of frog kick in the English dictionary

The definition of frog kick in the dictionary is a type of kick used in swimming, as in the breast stroke, in which the legs are simultaneously drawn towards the body and bent at the knees with the feet together, straightened out with the legs apart, and then brought together again quickly.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FROG KICK

frog
frog orchid
frog pad
frog spit
frog spittle
frog-bit
frogeye
frogeyed
frogfish
frogged
froggery
froggier
Froggies
froggiest
frogging
froggy
froghopper
froglet
froglike
frogling

WORDS THAT END LIKE FROG KICK

bicycle kick
corner kick
drop kick
drop-kick
flutter kick
fly kick
free kick
goal kick
kick
miskick
outkick
penalty kick
place kick
place-kick
running kick
scissors kick
sidekick
spot kick
stab kick
topkick

Synonyms and antonyms of frog kick in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «frog kick» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FROG KICK

Find out the translation of frog kick to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of frog kick from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frog kick» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蹬夹腿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

patada de rana
570 millions of speakers

English

frog kick
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेंढक लात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ركلة الضفادع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лягушка удар
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pontapé sapo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্যাঙ লাঠি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coup grenouille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tendangan katak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Frosch Kick
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カエルキック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

개구리 킥
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kick frog
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đá ếch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவளை கிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेडूक किक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kurbağalama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calcio rana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Bramkarz żaba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жаба удар
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lovitură broască
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βάτραχος λάκτισμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kikker kick
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

groda spark
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frosk spark
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frog kick

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FROG KICK»

The term «frog kick» is used very little and occupies the 157.123 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FROG KICK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frog kick

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROG KICK»

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Sport Diver
There are actually three types of frog kicks used by technical divers: the cave frog kick, the modified frog kick and the power frog kick. The most common of these is the cave frog kick, which is done with the body in a horizontal posture and the ...
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Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
158 FROG KICK states that frogs were used in the Middle Ages to inhale infection from a patient's body — a sort of reverse mouth-to-mouth. ATWS; BDPF; DEI; ID. See also Croak. FROG KICK a frog kick. The kicking motion used in the ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Scuba Diving
A modified frog kick is useful because it uses different muscles than the flutter and scissors kicks. Changing kicks is helpful if you become tired or develop leg cramps. The modified frog kick is different from a swimmer's frog kick. Assume a ...
Dennis Graver, 2009
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Aquatic Exercise for Rehabilitation and Training
Frog KicK: leg recovery PhASe The recovery begins with knee and hip flexion, and hip external rotation and abduction. This motion brings the knees hip-width apart or wider, while the heels draw down together toward the buttocks. At the end ...
Lori Thein Brody, Paula Richley Geigle, 2009
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Advanced Scuba Diver
A key advantage of the frog kick over the flutter kick is the increase control over direction. The flutter kick can only be used for swimming in a straight line. The frog kick can be used to change direction by forcing more with one leg than the other, ...
Jan Oldenhuizing
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Breakthrough Swimming
Bachrach did not agree with the usual frog kick taught at that time. Bachrach said, "I don't know why it is called the frog kick because if we really kicked like a frog we would get nowhere. Recall the size of the frog's foot and the length of his leg ...
Cecil Colwin, 2002
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Fit & Active: The West Point Physical Development Program
The main difference is that the frog kick breaks the slipstream of the body because the knees flex outward. Also, the frog kick employs more of a squeezing action as opposed to a whipping action. Whip kicks exhibit the following movements ...
Maureen K. LeBoeuf, Lawrence F. Butler, 2008
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Jeppesen's Open Water Sport Diver Manual
The frog kick is not commonly used in diving, but is good for providing a restful variation in kicks on long surface swims. Occasionally changing to the frog kick, for example, puts different muscles to work than those used in either the flutter or  ...
Lou Fead, 1992
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Fit Pregnancy For Dummies
As you push your arms forward, bend your knees in a frog kick to push you forward again. See Figure 13-5. This portion of the breast stroke, including the frog kick, is called the push. \ fig Don't snap your legs as you do the frog kick, or you may ...
Catherine Cram, MS, Tere Stouffer Drenth, 2011
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Sport Diver
... lie horizontally over the bottom bend your knees and move each fin independently to counteract water movements These will be limited kicks, using mostly the calves and ankles Sculling IS about keeping your balance » Frog Kick Move your ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROG KICK»

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Soccer: Like hockey, but with no puck
... got an ingrown toenail during the last Olympics and now has a chance to redeem herself by winning the 50-meter frog kick this time around. «Great Falls Tribune, Jul 15»
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Sports Medicine Expert Offers Tips on Swim Safely
Dr. Horrigan continues: "This unique 'frog kick' can stress and strain the Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) and can pinch and tear the ... «Onislam.net, Jun 14»
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Helen Newton '14
Newton began swimming around age three and remembers learning the frog kick technique even at that point. She specialized in the ... «The Bowdoin Orient, Feb 14»
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Greetings from Gitmo
... the frog kick) is difficult to master for many new divers anyway. He recalls a veteran named Jesse, with two legs amputated above the knee, ... «Newsweek, Feb 14»
5
Six Basic Strokes of Swimming
As you pull your arms back, you lift your head to breathe. The frog kick is used and starts when your arms begin to reach forward to glide. You bend your knees, ... «Chron.com, Feb 14»
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Want a smart baby? You could try this while pregnant
With each stroke I took, and with each frog kick I made, I wondered what it felt like for an unborn baby to be floating, suspended, inside a womb ... «BabyCenter, Nov 13»
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Apes can swim like humans
Both animals used a leg movement similar to the breaststroke “frog kick”, according to a report in the American Journal of Physical ... «Times of Malta, Aug 13»
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Aquatic Apes Love to Swim: Researchers
... the so-called dog-paddle to maneuver in water, the apes learned how to swim by using a combined breaststroke and “frog kick” technique. «Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet, Aug 13»
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Apes practice their long-lost swimming technique
The pair also observed an orangutan named Suryia using a leg movement similar to the human breaststroke 'frog kick', whilst Cooper used ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
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Life in the Womb, Part 5
It has been shown that newborn babies can swim reflexively when placed in water, using an efficient frog kick. In response to all of this activity, ... «National Right to Life News, Mar 13»

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