If you came here for tips on how to swim like Lucy Charles-Barclay or Alistair Brownlee, you may have found yourself in the wrong place. But if you're looking to become a better all-around swimmer, ...

Keep reading to learn more about each stroke and how they're swam, plus which muscles are worked. This powerful stroke requires a swimmer to move up out of the water and back down in a smooth, almost ...

Today, we accept that there are four competitive strokes. But when the first rules for competitive swimming were written in the early 19th century, there was only one ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12. THIS week's Throwback Thursday video wasn't an easy pick, considering each of Amy Van Dyken's four gold medal races in the 1996 Olympics were exciting to experience. But ...

Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are ...

Butterfly's widely recognized as swimming's toughest stroke to master, since it requires considerable upper-body and core ...