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1. What is swimming?

Swimming is derived from the word swim, meaning to move through water by means of fins, tail or the limbs. The term may also refer to move as though gliding through water or, to float on water or another liquid.

2. What are the rules in swimming?

Turns and Finishes

• Freestyle: feet have to touch the wall

• Backstroke: swimmers have to be on their back when they touch the wall. After he/she touches, he/she

can then turn around, but he/she must push off on their back. At the finish a swimmer must finish on

his/her back. A swimmer may not roll over and grab the wall until they have first touched it.

• Breaststroke and Butterfly:

1. Swimmers have to touch with both hands at the same time.

2. A swimmer may not freestyle kick off the wall in either breaststroke or butterfly.

3. When swimming butterfly, both arms must move at the same time.

Technical Rules

Trained officials observe the swimmers during each event to ensure compliance with these technical

rules. If a swimmer commits an infraction of the rules, he/she will be disqualified from that event. This

simply means he/she will not receive an official time, nor be eligible for an award in that event.

Disqualifications may result from actions such as not getting to the starting blocks on time, false starting,

walking on or pushing off the bottom of the pool, pulling on the land line, or unsportsmanlike conduct.

Technical rule violations for each stroke may include:

Freestyle:

• Walking on the bottom

• Pulling on the lane rope

• Not touching the wall on a turn

• Not completing the distance

Backstroke:

• Turning past the vertical onto the stomach and gliding or kicking into the wall on the turn (the

roll must be part of a continuous turning action)

• Pushing off the wall on the stomach after a turn

• Not remaining on back while swimming

• Turning onto stomach before the finish

Butterfly:

• Alternating movements of the arms or legs...