swimming style; swim stroke
Refers to a specific method or technique of swimming, such as the crawl, breaststroke, backstroke, or butterfly.
He has mastered all four swimming strokes.
In swimming class, we first learn the basic strokes.
traditional Japanese swimming
Compound of 泳 (ei, 'swim') and 法 (hō, 'method, law'). The reading is on'yomi, and the word is a straightforward Sino-Japanese compound.