游泳,作为一项深受群众欢迎的体育活动,是有着悠久的历史的。翻开人类历史来看,早在五千年以前,人类为着生存,为了和大自然作斗争,就已经开始了游泳活动。游泳发展的历史告诉我们:游泳作为人类同大自然作斗争的一种手段,是劳动人民适应生产实践需要而创造和发展起来的。在开始时,劳动人民模仿动物游水的姿式,创造了一些实用的游泳方法,例如“狗爬式”、“鸭子浮水”、“扎猛子”, Swimming, as a popular sporting event, has a long history. Open human history point of view, as early as five thousand years ago, mankind for survival, in order to fight against nature, has already started swimming activities. The history of the development of swimming tells us that swimming, as a means of fighting human beings with nature, is created and developed by working people in response to the needs of production practice. In the beginning, working people mimicked animal swimming and created some practical swimming methods such as “dog crawling”, “duck floating”, “dagger”