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He was hesitant at first, as if he'd never seen water, and I guessed his life had involved a lot more begging than doggy paddling.
(2) Learn how to swim properly as my stressed doggy paddle is very hard work.
The dog paddle or doggy paddle is a simple swimming style.
I gulped some water, freaked out, and, just as I'd feared, had to doggy paddle!
When we couldn't swim we used the doggy paddle.
Thai families doggy paddle near me, luxuriating in the bath-warm water and searing sunlight.
But I'm impressed by Wallow's one-armed doggy paddle.
Alas, all good things come to an end and with a mixture of breast stroke and doggy paddle I managed to beach myself onto the belay.
But I told myself that the worst that can happen is I freak out, can't control my breathing, and have to doggy paddle the whole way.
He swam up and down, waving his arms in an energetic, childish doggy paddle, hacking and spitting and smacking his lips with a prodigious thirst.
Instead of trying to walk, doggy paddle, Heathcliffe always tried to climb out of the water; hence, he generally ended up on his back, legs lashing away hopelessly, until disappearing under the surface.
George - you're doggy paddling some lengths (try not to sink), and the rest of you look busy whilst throwing Clegg in at the deep end...as for me, I'll posture heroically atop the diving tower"
It is not necessary to use a defined stroke for propulsion through the water, and untrained swimmers may use a 'doggy paddle' of arm and leg movements which mimics the strokes of quadruped animals such as dogs in the water.
There's not even a decent T-shirt and the sets of postcards turn out to be stills from a movie about the life of Mao, with a chubby actor re-creating the founding of the People's Republic or the famous doggy paddle down the Yangtze.
I've never liked Keighley since I had my 8th birthday party at the local leisure centre when an angry child kicked my beach ball out of my hands, stared manically at me for longer than was strictly necessary, then doggy paddled off in the opposite direction.
Another Raposo composition, "Doggy Paddle", features Raposo barking like several singing dogs during its instrumental verse, a blatant musical homage to the singing and barking dogs of "Memories Are Made Of This" by Jones and His City Slickers.
"I just told her that all she had to do was doggie paddle," he recalled.
"The doggie paddle, to me, is a very important stroke," he said.
"That's her version of the doggie paddle."
That freakish doggie paddle he does before revealing himself is more unsettling than any of the hokey vampire film that follows.
"I know the doggie paddle, the jellyfish float, the dive and the swim on top like this," said Ramel, as he windmilled his arms through the air in an imitation of the crawl.
The dog paddle is a simple style often used instinctively by children.
He forced his legs to start kicking again, in a dog paddle.
I stepped off the deep end a long time ago and have been dog paddling for dear life ever since.
He does a dog paddle, then the butterfly stroke for a minute or so.
Don't lean too far forward or you'll be dog paddling.
The only style I know is the dog paddle."
Human stroke: Similar to the dog paddle, but the arms reach out more and pull farther down.
Sometime during that nightmare dog paddle, she had lost or kicked off her shoes.
A wave broke over my head, and I was swimming with a stately dog paddle.
I can dog paddle but that's about it.
You can hear the dog paddling in the river Wye.
The swimming stroke is not an ordinary dog paddle.
Grace learned enough to keep afloat and dog paddle.
Its other asset is a tiled jet-pool big enough to dog paddle in.
Me, though, I took to it like I was born doing the dog paddle.
He's stuck in the middle - dog paddling in the Rubicon.
He has known Kittles since his first dog paddle.
Prehistoric cave paintings in Egypt show figures doing what appears to be the dog paddle.
The waves force her to dog paddle.
Dare you cross the river without dog paddles!
The younger brother was able to stay afloat by "dog paddling" until a ride operator rescued him.
He tried a sidestroke but began sinking, so he went back to his crippled dog paddle.
Let me show you the dog paddle."
The dog paddle or doggy paddle is a simple swimming style.