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
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
About a 15-minute walk away from the Othello station is Beacon Hill’s Van Asselt Playground, which on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays this summer brings back its wading pool.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2021
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
