Why does a swimmer push water backward with his hands in order to swim forward

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According to the Newton’s 3rd law of motion, it states that ‘When one body exerts a force on the other body, the first body experiences a force which is equal in magnitude in the opposite direction of the force which is exerted’. Hence the swimmer push water backward with his hands in order to swim forward.

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