wading

Appropriate to wade in.not-comparable

• The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.

Usually of a bird: which wades.not-comparable

• Flamingos are wading birds.

gerund of wade: the act of one who wades.countableform-ofgerund

• [I]n ten minutes more 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 beneath the black pine-woods.
• 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.

present participle and gerund of wadeform-ofgerundparticiple