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dog paddling

dog paddling is the present participle and gerund of dog paddle.

Meaning of dog paddle

Verb

dog paddle (third-person singular simple present dog paddles, present participle dog paddling, simple past and past participle dog paddled)

  1. To swim in dog paddle style.
    • He pretended that an alligator was behind him and swam desperately. He passed one spot and then, laboriously, another, dog-paddling.1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 11, in The Yearling

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Questions about dog paddling

What is dog paddling the present participle and gerund of?
Dog paddling is the present participle and gerund of dog paddle.

Words near dog paddling in the dictionary

  1. dog out
  2. dog pack
  3. dog paddle
  4. dog paddled
  5. dog paddles
  6. dog paddling
  7. dog park
  8. dog parks
  9. dog parsley
  10. dog pile
  11. dog piles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dog paddling (page history and authors); dog paddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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