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Treading water   /trˈɛdɪŋ wˈɔtər/   Listen
Treading water

noun
1.
A stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms.





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"Treading water" Quotes from Famous Books



... back somewhat now, so he paddled slowly to a point on the wall of the pit under Scotty's position. He bumped gently into rock and felt with his hands while treading water. The rock surface was rough, but the roughness was regular, the wall flat. Then his fingers felt a groove and his mind created the image to match it. A drill hole! He was in ...
— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... was the first who rose. Treading water and brushing the hair out of his eyes, he gazed wildly about. Barret came up close beside him, almost a moment later. He had barely taken breath, when the others rose at various distances. A cry not far from him caused ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne
... He was treading water, holding to a rope that dangled over the side of the ship when, with no interior tremor of warning, a cut that he almost thought had penetrated to the bone lashed across his shoulders narrowly missing his left ear. Without stopping to think Chris ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson


Words linked to "Treading water" :   thrash, swimming stroke


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