wading pool

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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

In July, around the baby’s first birthday, the couple sent Motley a snapshot of the child in swim trunks, smiling and splashing in a wading pool.

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

So I told him the mission: When they were digging the king’s new wading pool, they found some old, buried goblin treasure—a giant gemstone carved with some kind of a story on it.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin