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"args": {},
"expansion": "backstroke (third-person singular simple present backstrokes, present participle backstroking, simple past and past participle backstroked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "front crawl"
},
{
"word": "freestyle"
},
{
"word": "medley"
},
{
"word": "trudgen"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To swim the backstroke."
],
"links": [
[
"swim",
"swim"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbækˌstɹoʊk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-backstroke.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/En-us-backstroke.ogg/En-us-backstroke.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/En-us-backstroke.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to swim backstroke",
"word": "kau tīraha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to swim backstroke",
"word": "kauhoe tīraha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to swim backstroke",
"word": "nadar de costas"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "shvimen nazndik",
"sense": "to swim backstroke",
"word": "שווימען נאַזנדיק"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"backstroke"
],
"word": "backstroke"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: bellringing",
"path": [
"backstroke"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "backstroke",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: bellringing",
"path": [
"backstroke"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "backstroke",
"trace": ""
}
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