wading

• Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

wading (not comparable)

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.

wading

1. present participle of wade

wading (countable and uncountable, plural wadings)

1. The act of one who wades.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies

     […] 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 […]

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 139:

     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.

• dawing