backstroker

A swimmer who uses the style backstroke

Noun

  1. A swimmer who uses the style backstroke
    • I swam differently from the other backstrokers," he says. " - 1998 August 28, Ted Kleine, “Pool Hustler”, in Chicago Reader:
    • Matt Grevers was struggling to keep his head above water in a deep pool of backstrokers when a coach from the Netherlands offered him a preserver. - 2008 July 13, Karen Crouse, “Wooed by Netherlands, a Swimmer Stays for...

Origin

From backstroke + -er.

Forms

backstrokers