Timeline for What verb describes the motion of a swimmer's arms?
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 17:59 | comment | added | Jim | @blgt - the pulling and pushing to which I was referring is that I'm * pulling* my body through the water when my hands are in front of my head but my arm stroke continues such that when my shoulders are ahead of my hands I am now pushing my body through the water. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | danarmak | Very well, I'll have to accept that this answer is imperfect but there's no better one. Thanks! | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 17:44 | vote | accept | danarmak | ||
| Jan 9, 2015 at 15:40 | comment | added | blgt |
Indeed, however both kicking with his legs and pushing with his arms and kicking with his legs and pulling with his arms look perfectly fine to me
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | danarmak |
@blgt if I were to write the swimmer was kicking with his legs and pushing and pulling with his arms, I don't feel it would be very clear.
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 15:33 | comment | added | blgt | @danarmak They don't mean the same thing. You pull your hand towards your body, you push your hand against the water | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 15:08 | comment | added | danarmak | It bothers me if 'pushing' and 'pulling' could be used to mean the same thing here. Is there evidence that one of them (or a different word) is more commonly used? I don't want to rely on my own intuition / experience in this case, hence the question. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 14:50 | vote | accept | danarmak | ||
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | blgt |
I agree (thus the +1), I'm just pointing out it's important to make the distinction. It's more specific (and also a better parallel for kicking) in the OP's context than what OP asked about. On a side note, pushing works just as well (as referring to the arm pushing the water)
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | Jim | @blgt- I agree, but in this specific context the word is being used to describe the thrust generation portion of the stroke: "the drag from the water is equal to the thrust they generate by kicking and <pulling of the arms>" I will agree that an argument could be made that once the hands pass the shoulder it becomes pushing. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | blgt | I'd say the pull is only half of a full arm stroke (the other half being the recovery) | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 14:27 | history | answered | Jim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |