swimming hole

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   a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming

   Broaderpond

Questions about swimming hole

What does swimming hole mean?

swimming hole means "a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming".

Is swimming hole a common word?

swimming hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.