wading

Etymology

adj

  1. Appropriate to wade in.
    The pool is too small for doing laps: it's only a wading pool.
  2. Which wades (usually said of birds).
    Flamingos are wading birds.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of wade

noun

  1. The act of one who wades.
    […] the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams […] 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies

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