wading pool
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wading pool
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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“It’s the size of a lake but it’s not deep. ... It’s more like a very, very large riverbed without the flow — a wading pool maybe.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
Inside was the same photo of the child in the wading pool, but altered to change the background, add a shirt and smooth her hair.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022
At one elementary school off Portobello Road, staff had set up a wading pool, and the children could be heard splashing and laughing up the street.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2022
The Flower Hill Swimming Pool complex has three pools: a wading pool, lap pool and 50-meter pool featuring 25 metered lap lanes, a children’s area and diving well.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022
Laika’s tub of horror was a plastic toddler’s wading pool, blue, and decorated with a frieze of press-formed dolphins, starfish, and bubbles dancing around its outer wall.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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