wading

1. not comparableAppropriate to wade in.

   The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.

2. not comparableUsually of a bird: which wades.

   Flamingos are wading birds.

plural wadings

1. countablegerunduncountablegerund of wade: the act of one who wades.

   Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139

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   [I]n ten minutes more 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 beneath the black pine-woods.

   1871, Charles Kingsley, “The High Woods”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 232

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of wade

1. Synonym of Wading River.

   Synonyms: Wading River