They took off their sandals and 'paddled' [=('US') 'waded'] at the edge of the pond.
('informal') If you don't get in here, I'm going to 'paddle' your behind.
In those days many people believed it was okay to 'paddle' children.
(..) That's what's left after me saying, "When I was in China on the All-America ping-pong team, "I just loved playing ping-pong "with my Flex-o-lite ping-pong paddle," which everybody knows isn't true, but Mama said it was just a little white lie, it wasn't hurting nobody. So anyway, and new nets (..)1994 Forrest Gump