1. Hunting ducks
   "ducking requires patience and skill in using duck calls";
   - duck hunting
    
2. The act of wetting something by submerging it
   "The ducking of the cloth in the dye lasted only seconds";
   - submersion, immersion, dousing

1. To move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
   "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
    
2. Submerge or plunge suddenly
   "The swimmer ducked under the wave"
    
3. Immerse into a liquid
   "He ducked into the pool";
   - dip, douse
    
4. [informal] Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
   "The politician ducked the reporter's difficult questions";
   - hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep, finesse, circumnavigate

Derived forms: duckings

Type of: avoid, dip, dive, douse, dump, dunk, hunt, hunting, move, plunge, plunk [informal], souse, wetting

Encyclopedia: Ducking