trudgeon

The single overarm is easier to learn than the double overarm or "trudgeon" stroke.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

The trudgeon crawl kick is a combination of the crawl and the trudgeon, and the reason it is used for sprinting in preference to the crawl is because it is less tiring, thus affording greater speed for long distances.

Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old Frank Eugen Dalton

The trudgeon crawl is the stroke par excellence for racing purposes.

Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old Frank Eugen Dalton

In the trudgeon crawl there is a greater roll to the body, and you breathe when rolling toward the right side, as in Fig. 30.

Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old Frank Eugen Dalton

The crawl stroke as originally introduced was a combination of the trudgeon arm stroke with a leg drive used by the natives of the South Sea Islands.

Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old Frank Eugen Dalton

Pupils after mastering the side and trudgeon strokes take to this stroke very quickly, because in reality it is a combination of both.

Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old Frank Eugen Dalton

Surging through the muddy tide with a powerful trudgeon stroke, making a wake of swirling bubbles across which snaked the black coils of a heaving line,

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

This course is a continuation of Beginners 'Swimming, including side stroke, single over arm side stroke, trudgeon, preliminary crawl, rudiments of diving.

The University of Virginia Record 1927

Swanking his trudgeon stroke he surged through the dirty water like an excited whale, puffing and blowing.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

At first he tore the water white with the vigor of his trudgeon-stroke.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921