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In swimming, there is a lot of different terminologies- flip turn and tumble turn, lane rope and lane line, swimming stroke and swimming style, butterfly kick and dolphin kick, a mile and a swimmer’s mile, the list goes on… But if there is one thing swimmers from all around the world can agree on it is this-
In swimming a lap is the same as a length.
By definition, a lap means a complete trip around a race track, in swimming, the pool is the race track. Therefore if you swim from one end to the other, you’ve completed the track and thus you’ve completed one lap or one length.
So to put it even more simply- if you swim from one side of the pool to the other it counts as one lap (and a length is the same as a lap).
This is by default a universal acceptance among swimmers.
You can ask any competitive swimmer, whether they are a 23-time Olympic gold medalist or a 7-year-old just starting to swim competitively, and they’ll tell you the same thing- a lap is the same as a length.
You see when we are racing (assuming you are in a 50m long course pool), we don’t say a 50m sprint
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