pool-hopping

pool-hopping

The act of using private or public swimming pools without the knowledge of the owners or when the pool is closed to the public, especially during the night. There wasn't anything to do in our small Mississippi town after dark other than go pool-hopping with our friends.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pool-hopping

n. sneaking into private or public swimming pools at night or during the off-hours. The kids went pool-hopping, and one of them nearly drowned.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • alert
  • alert the public
  • be public property
  • public eye
  • take (something) public
  • take public
  • take something public
  • make public
  • the common weal
  • the public weal
References in periodicals archive
Because he loves water (before being captured, he was filmed pool-hopping), the sanctuary would love to build him a pool."
Would you rather have a piece of rice permanently attached to your lip or a fly always buzzing around your head?" These are some of the questions that Natalie and her friends idly contemplate as they spend lazy summer nights hanging out at the Ding-Dong and engaging in the occasional game of pool-hopping. It's a quiet, ordinary summer, except that Natalie is trying to avoid thinking about the fact that her older sister Claire will be going away to university in the fall and nothing will be the same without her.
POOL-HOPPING AND OTHER STORIES BY ANNE FLEMING POLESTAR 1999
The first (and only time) I heard Anne Fleming read from Pool-Hopping and Other Stories, I walked in on a lecture hall full of Emily Carr art and design students at the very moment she (or rather her character) was inserting a tampon.