free-style

A form of freestyle — A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.

Meanings

adjectivefree-style (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of freestyle.

    I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

    1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 3
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