trudgeon

trudgeon

⇒, subst. masc.
Vieilli, SPORTS. Nage pratiquée avant le crawl, se caractérisant par le retournement du corps d'un côté sur l'autre, et le dégagement alterné des bras appuyé d'un ciseau de jambes (d'apr. PETIOT 1982).
Prononc.:[], []. Étymol. et Hist. 1900 trudgeon stroke (La Vie au grand air, 26 août ds PETIOT 1982); 1905 trudgeon (L'Auto, 11 sept., ibid.); 1905 strudgeon (La Vie au grand air, 11 août, 656a ds HÖFLER Anglic.); 1906 trudgeon (Nouv. Lar. ill. Suppl., s.v. natation). Empr. à l'angl. trudgeon (1893 ds NED), altér. de trudgen, abrév. de l'expr. Trudgen stroke désignant un mouvement de nage introd. par le Britannique John Trudgen qui l'aurait empr. aux Sud-Américains lors d'un voyage à Buenos Aires en 1863 (NED).

trudgeon [tʀydʒɔ̃; tʀœdʒɔn] n. m.
ÉTYM. 1905, in Petiot; angl. trudgen, trudgeon, 1893; du nom de Trudgen, qui importa cette nage d'Amérique du Sud.
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♦ Anglic. Vieilli. Nage qui consiste en un retournement du corps d'un côté sur l'autre, accompagné d'un dégagement alterné des bras avec coup de ciseaux des jambes (→ Indienne).

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