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swimming pool

an artificial pool for swimming
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swimming pool

Any basin or tank containing an artificial body of water sufficiently deep for swimming.
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The sun was shining on her purple wading pool with the blue fishes on the side.
Following the episode at the wading pool, the child was examined at a hospital and had perianal bruising and prolapse of the rectal mucosa.
Many in the Friendly Area Neighbors association were not happy when the wading pool was shut down two years ago.
Burnt (Germany), choreographed by Vera Sander and directed by Holger Gruss, contrasts the frenetic encounters of two men and a woman in a sleek, ultramodern office building with the perfunctory activities of the building's after-hours cleaning lady as she works her way through the empty edifice and emerges at dawn to walk barefoot through a wading pool. Whether the threesome represents some fantasy in the cleaning lady's mind or the true nature of the building's daytime occupants is not clear.
Atcher Island's tropical-themed water park features a water slide, a bowl slide, a wading pool, a sprayground and a concessions area.
Resort-style, heated pool, with a 42-foot waterslide, two whirlpools and a children's wading pool
"It would be the end of an era," said Emily Lae, who was sunbathing in Eugene's Washington Park on Monday with friends as her 7-year-old son, Simon, played with his friends in the park's wading pool. Lae was responding to the news that the five remaining wading pools in city parks will be decommissioned at the end of the summer after decades of use that goes back as far as the 1960s, if not before.
There will also be a recreation center with swimming pool, wading pool, tennis court and a large clubhouse with state-of-the-art exercise center, lounge, community room, kitchen facilities, lockers, saunas and bathrooms.
The company has begun producing "Stadium Splash," a small, inflatable wading pool made from PVC and designed to look like some of MLB's legendary ballparks, such as Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Shea Stadium.
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