wading
Splashing through shallows
Wading is walking through water or another substance that impedes movement, typically water shallow enough to keep your head above the surface: wading in the creek, wading through the flooded street.
Figuratively, to wade through something is to make slow progress through difficult or tedious material: wading through a dense legal document, wading through hundreds of emails.
Stroking water with blades
- splashingLiquid striking noisily
- ankle-deepSubmerged to the foot
- knee-deepImmersed to one joint
- shallowWithout much depth
stream · creek · river · ford · sandbar · tidepool · estuary · marsh
paddling
Stroking water with blades
- splashingLiquid striking noisily
- ankle-deepSubmerged to the foot
- knee-deepImmersed to one joint
shallow · stream · creek · river · ford · sandbar · tidepool · estuary · marsh · wetlands
slogging
Effortful, weary progress
- trudgingWalking with difficulty
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
- navigatingDirecting movement through space
sifting · sorting · laborious · paperwork · bureaucracy · backlog · documents · data · emails · tedium
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Long-legged waterside bird
ibis · flamingo · spoonbill · sandpiper · avocet · bittern · plover · curlew · godwit · snipe
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- bird traitsfeathered, plumed, plumage, plumaged, beaky
- lake activitiesboating, canoeing, float trips, floating, kayak
- lake scenerowboat, canoe, kayak, dock, pier
- pool activitieslap swimming, laps, pool laps, floating, treading water
- flats fishingflats, bonefish, tarpon, redfish, permit
wadingswimming
Locomotion through water
diving · submerging · plunging · snorkeling · scuba diving
wadingswimming
Locomotion through water
powerboating · surfing · water skiing · jet skiing · hydroplaning
- wading poolShallow children's water basin
- wading inEntering water gradually
- wading birdsLong-legged aquatic fowl
- wading bootsWaterproof footwear for shallow water
- wading areaShallow water for standing