He has participated in it before, but this year he'll swim backward (the backstroke) and then run the marathon backward.

"I've never heard that cliché," Raymond said, swimming backward again.

"Okay, follow me in," he said as he held the sticks apart and swam backward from the docking collar.

However, when they flee, they swim backward quickly by curling and uncurling their abdomen.

Rordray was swimming backward into a corner of the ballroom.

They swam swiftly both backward and forward with rapid swishes, reversing their fins.

Black bands on the mantle, arms limp, swimming rapidly backward: Look at me.

Or they would swim backward with false eye spots and arms held together and waved like the tail of a fish.

The little dinosaurs are not without ambivalence in their stirrings: they swim backward, face toward home, body toward the unknown.

Bolan swam backward as the knife lunged toward his chest.