Hola! Como se dice patas de rana? El accesorio para natación que nos ponemos en los pies para nadar más rápido. Gracias!
patas de rana. Natación
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No sé si te refieres a "snorkeling fins". Espero que otros foreros se animen a ayudarte.
Saludos
Saludos
Un hilo anterior con la misma pregunta: patas de rana (natación). Siempre conviene primero buscar, para que no se repitan los hilos con la misma pregunta.
Sí, así se llaman.
También se conocen como dive fins.
As someone who swims regularly and has a SCUBA license, I can tell you that in AmEn, the term varies with the exact use of the product.
Swim fins are usually shorter, and are used to swim laps.
Snorkeling fins are of medium length.
Dive fins are usually longer, and sometimes have an ankle strap to be worn over dive boots.
Flippers is the word usually used by kids. Serious swimmers don't use this word.
Therefore, in the context of el accesorio para natación que nos ponemos en los pies para nadar más rápido, the best word is swim fins.
Swim fins are usually shorter, and are used to swim laps.
Snorkeling fins are of medium length.
Dive fins are usually longer, and sometimes have an ankle strap to be worn over dive boots.
Flippers is the word usually used by kids. Serious swimmers don't use this word.
Therefore, in the context of el accesorio para natación que nos ponemos en los pies para nadar más rápido, the best word is swim fins.
Serious swimmers might not use the word flippers, but that does not mean that only children use it. But, if I am wrong then I guess I am a kid at heart, because that's what I call them.
Here is an excerpt from an article entitled Best Swim Flippers for Adults
Here is an excerpt from an article entitled Best Swim Flippers for Adults
That's interesting, because I would have assumed aletas de natación to be what we call water wings.
Eso, por aquí, son "manguitos", jajaja ¡Vaya jaleo!
Porque sí que parece que en otros países lo llaman "aletas". Al menos, la wiki da esa opción:
Alas acuáticas - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Las alas acuáticas también llamado aletas, flotadores, manguitos de natación, bandas o nadadores son un aparato para asistir en el aprendizaje de la natación y flotación.
A veces, también por aquí, a los manguitos se les llama flotadores, aunque 'flotador' solemos relacionarlo más con un 'rubber ring'.
Pero si buscas 'aletas' en Google imágenes solo salen 'patas de rana'
aletas - Google Search
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I didn't mean to say that adults never use the word. When I said "Flippers is the word usually used by kids. Serious swimmers don't use this word," I was trying to say that when I lifeguard at the pool and hear kids refer to these things, flippers is often the word they use. And it is true that none of the swimmers I associate with seems to use that word, but of course we all know it and wouldn't really think twice if someone called a pair of fins flippers.
Sarah, it makes sense that you would call these aletas, since that is what the corresponding part of a fish is called.
Por aquí, a lo que llamas patas de rana lo llamamos patos de buceo (también aletas de buceo).