swimming

swim

pawing of hooves at the ground / struggling, flailing about / movement of one's hands and legs

pawing at the ground (less common than the agaki reading) / a children's game played by hopping around on one foot

Leersia japonica, a kind of cutgrass native to Japan

practice (learning or improvement of a skill)

practice

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend