What is a "crawl" in relation to swimming?

Question

What is a "crawl" in relation to swimming?

Answer 1

is a type of swinning style... like doggie paddle, backstroke, breast stroke and butterfly.

The crawl is the way everyone swims where you kick and your hands come out of the water over your head and back into the water in front of you.

Answer 2

it's a swim stroke... most swimmers refer to it as freestyle.

Answer 3

its what foreign people or people who don't know how to swim call the freestyle.