different between wading vs swimming

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?d??

Adjective

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.

Verb

wading

1. present participle of wade

Noun

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 […]

Anagrams

• dawing

English

Pronunciation

Wikiversity

• IPA^(key): /?sw?m??/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Etymology 1

From Middle English swymmynge. Equivalent to swim (“to move through water”, verb) +? -ing (suffix forming gerunds).

Noun

swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)

1. The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
2. The act or process of something that swims.
   • 1869, William Chambers, ?Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts (page 2)

     Swimmings of the head and intestinal pains seemed the prelude of dissolution.

Related terms

• swimming bath
• swimming cap
• swimming pool
• synchronised swimming, synchronized swimming

Translations

Etymology 2

From swim (“to be dizzy”, verb) +? -ing (suffix forming gerunds).

Noun

swimming (countable and uncountable, plural swimmings)

1. The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.

   the swimming of my head the day after heavy drinking

Translations

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

swimming

1. present participle of swim