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doggy paddling

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

Meaning of doggy paddle

Verb

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

  1. To swim in this style.
    • Number one immediately leapt into the water and doggy-paddled [...] across to the other side[.]2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 127

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Questions about doggy paddling

What is doggy paddling the present participle and gerund of?
Doggy paddling is the present participle and gerund of doggy paddle.

Words near doggy paddling in the dictionary

  1. doggy dog
  2. doggy fashion
  3. doggy paddle
  4. doggy paddled
  5. doggy paddles
  6. doggy paddling
  7. doggy style
  8. doggy treat
  9. doggy treats
  10. doggy woggies
  11. doggy woggy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doggy paddling (page history and authors); doggy 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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