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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paddling pool
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he certainly isn't too bothered whether that water is in a proper paddling pool or a washing-up bowl!
▪ Brenda's children played in the paddling pool.
▪ Jane had spent the afternoon sitting by the paddling pool, with her feet in the water to ease the pain.
▪ There is a pool where deck-chairs can be hired, paddling pool, playground and restaurant.
▪ There was also a huge paddling pool smack in the middle of the playground.
Wiktionary
paddling pool

n. An pool, usually inflatable, only able to contain enough water to paddle as opposed to swim.

Usage examples of "paddling pool".

They came over when we were living in Buckingham and you and Mark played in the paddling pool!

Here was the children's playground, its metal-framed rides overturned, its sandpit fouled by dogs, its paddling pool empty.

One of Toni's team had already gotten out a shallow plastic tub like a children's paddling pool.

She skirted a huge creature like a spiral galaxy in miniature, thorny swirls of body with one enormous pale-blue eye the size of a child's paddling pool set at its center.

When she made up her mind to follow the boy, she found him in the courtyard floating the rose in his paddling pool.

George was a nothing, a delivery boy, a kid from the paddling pool who'd fallen into the deep end.

Never buy a blue car or a paddling pool, stay away from oysters and circular saws, and don'.

Never buy a blue car or a paddling pool, stay away from oysters and circular saws, and don't be near Oxford in June 2016.

At two o'clock, after a salad lunch, he was playing with the children in the paddling pool when Jelka came to the door.