swimming hole

a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.

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The others said they reckoned so, too, and they all got down from the tree, and started for the swimming-hole.
The Flight of Pony Baker|W. D. Howells
One day when we ran away to the swimming-hole after school, this other little fellow didn't come back with us.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
At noon time the boys disappeared down toward the swimming-hole.
Understood Betsy|Dorothy Canfield
Another drawback to the ocean as a swimming-hole is that the distances are all wrong.
Back Home|Eugene Wood

"That'd be like learnin' to eat without grub," suggested Sube as the party moved off in the direction of the swimming-hole.
Sube Cane|Edward Bellamy Partridge