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Water-based sport

This article is about competitive swimming. For the general article on human movement in the water, see Swimming.

"Swimmer" redirects here. For other uses, see Swimmer (disambiguation).

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake).

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Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports,^[1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay.

A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.^[2]

Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for