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mudding

mudding is the present participle and gerund of mud.

Noun (1)

mudding (uncountable)

  1. The recreational activity of driving an off-road vehicle through muddy terrain.
    • “I can't believe it's gonna rain for our entire spring break.” “Oh, don't worry, Vi, we're gonna let it get real gushy, then we are going mudding!” “Yes! I mean, whatever. Mudding's dumb.”2021 May 9, Tim McAuliffe, “When You Lose, You Win” (0:06 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz)
  2. The therapeutic use of mud baths.

Meaning of mud

Verb (1)

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

  1. (transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
  2. (transitive) To make turbid.
  3. (intransitive) To go under the mud, as an eel does.

Verb (2)

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

  1. (Internet, intransitive) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
    • Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153

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Noun (2) capitalized: MUDding

MUDding (uncountable)

  1. Participation in MUD games

Origin of mudding

From mud + -ing.

Phrases with mudding

Questions about mudding

What does mudding mean?
Mudding means the recreational activity of driving an off-road vehicle through muddy terrain.
What is mudding the present participle and gerund of?
Mudding is the present participle and gerund of mud.
What part of speech is mudding?
Mudding is a noun.

Words near mudding in the dictionary

  1. muddifying
  2. muddily
  3. Muddiman
  4. muddiness
  5. muddinesses
  6. mudding
  7. mudding out
  8. muddish
  9. muddle
  10. muddle along
  11. muddle on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mudding (page history and authors); MUDding (page history and authors); mud (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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