Artistic swimming

Japanese: artistic swimming(英語表記)artisticswimming
Artistic swimming

...A water sport in which participants combine various swimming styles and techniques to compete on the basis of technical accuracy and beauty of expression.
[history]
In England, Germany and other countries, a form of mass-game-style school swimming that combines floating and swimming to music was performed around 1920 under the name artistic swimming. It spread through Canada and then to the United States, where it was developed under the name water ballet, and was shown as an exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934. This led to it being performed as an underwater show in various places.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "artistic swimming" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…各種の泳法,泳技を組み合わせ,技術の正確さや表現の美しさを競う水上スポーツ。
[歴史]
 イギリスやドイツなどで,1920年ころからアーティスティックスイミングartistic swimmingという名称で浮身と泳ぎを組み合わせ,音楽に合わせたマスゲーム風の群泳が行われていた。それがカナダを経てアメリカでウォーターバレエwater balletの名で発展,34年シカゴの万国博覧会のときエキジビションとして公開され,それを契機に各地で水中ショーとして実演されるようになった。…

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