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  • noun The occupation of a lifeguard.

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Examples

  • At jobs typically filled by teens, such as lifeguarding at the Royal Avenue Recreation Center in Florence, teens experience little competition from older workers.

    news | FT | http://www.timesdaily.com 2009

  • The plan, which is already under way, calls for companies and nonprofits to run park services like food concessions, lifeguarding and boat rentals in the 39 state parks and 50 historic sites.

    Christie Pushing Park Privatization Heather Haddon 2011

  • Because of the compensation, lifeguarding has evolved from a brief and youthful interlude into a career and that's probably what's most shocking, said Councilwoman Leslie Daigle, who added that in the winter the fulltime lifeguards stayed busy answering phones and painting guard towers.

    Lifeguards' high pay riles Calif. beach city 2011

  • I thought how much better this was than lifeguarding, my muscles moving instead of lolling, the smell of dirt and algae instead of chlorine and artificial coconut.

    Every little thing in the world Nina de Gramont 2010

  • I came home from lifeguarding to find my mother sitting in the grand room staring out the window, exactly where she was every afternoon, especially that summer.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

  • So I was pretty lucky throughout my lifeguarding career, if you will.

    Drowning Risk More Acute For Minorities 2010

  • Clark, then 22, was teaching and lifeguarding at Huntington Beach when he walked into Fullerton Music, where 19-year-old Laurie was working.

    37 years in: Family, fearlessness, sense of adventure 2010

  • She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer.

    Louise Erdrich biography 2008

  • She took more pictures while Jessi wasn't looking -- of her daughter lifeguarding at the pool, getting into the car, showing an unintended flash of skin.

    Barbara Schroeder: And You Thought Your Mother Wasn't Perfect 2010

  • I came home from lifeguarding to find my mother sitting in the grand room staring out the window, exactly where she was every afternoon, especially that summer.

    Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010

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