Is it from one end to the other? Or swim from one end to the other and then back again?
2006-10-20 02:18:44 · 9 answers · asked by goldensands 1 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
From one end to the other is a lap. There and back is obviously two laps.
There are 50 yard/meter length pools where one lap is double that of a standard 25 yard/meter pool, but "lap" is relative to the pool.
The shortest competitive race is the 50 Free(yards or meters), and in most cases is a two "lap" race, but in a longer pool can be one lap.
2006-10-20 07:19:33 · answer #1 · answered by Baxter's Dad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An olympic pool is 25 meters so 1 lap would be 50 meters
2006-10-20 02:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by waggy_33 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
short course pools are 25 yards for one length of the pool so it would be 50 yards to the other end and back again.
long course pools, which are the ones they use in the olympics, are 50 meters long so two lengths of the pools would be 100 meters.
2006-10-21 14:39:14 · answer #3 · answered by calgrlzrockharder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree a lot of people answered this wrong
im on swim team so know a lap is down
2 laps is down and back
and so on
and to clear it up the shortest race is swimming is a 25 free/fly/back/breast stroke in a yard pool
or a 50 meter in the meter pool
in olympic swimming they use meter pools,
and some swim teams swim meter pools
the team in on uses both
yards in winter
and meter in summer
i hope this helps
2006-10-21 10:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by jasam4lyfe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A link is just down the pool. A lap is down and back.
2006-10-20 08:18:22 · answer #5 · answered by h2olover1976 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
25 in a short ditance pool (yards or meters) and 50 in a long distance pool (meters)
alot off the people who awnsered this are wrong... it is one lap down 2 laps down and back.... hope i helped
2006-10-20 07:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by ellygirl360 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi swimmer,
swimming pools come in standard sizes.
generally it is 25 Mtrs onelength,
or if it is olampic size ti is 50 Mtrs one length.
few pools are in yards,, thats the old measurement standard and is 25 yrds.
few pools are L shaped for diving,
hope this helps u,,
take care
swimmer friend :))
2006-10-20 02:31:11 · answer #7 · answered by Friends Forever 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over then back is one lap.
2006-10-20 02:20:48 · answer #8 · answered by jen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
from one end to another is 25 yds..or 75 feet.
2006-10-20 02:21:13 · answer #9 · answered by Studmuffin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋