"river pool" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a body of water resulting from a river that has been dammed up or a depression near a riverbank which collects water. For example: "Near the banks of the river, there is a deep pool of water where the kids like to swim."
Still, when the folk singer Pete Seeger and a cluster of about 50 supporters and co-conspirators gathered by the river on Thursday to dedicate the River Pool at Beacon, a partly submerged pool in which Hudson River water flows through an intricate mesh framework, it was hard not to see both a small thing and a small miracle.
Supporters of the River Pool say it, like the annual swim across the Hudson that the group sponsors, is both about reclaiming the river and finding ways to dramatize its importance and potential.
Another 5km south, near Santa Maria de Merlès, we find another great spot to jump and dive from rocks into a deep river pool.
It's surrounded by 50 acres of woods and fields (also enjoyed by the two rescue donkeys that give the cabin its name) and visitors can spend their time swimming in a river pool and hiking through untamed countryside.
Nkoloso claims that an officer "deliberately, and willfully, grabbed and took me by the neck and thrust me into the river pool with his full intention to drown me".
Perhaps because he'd come later in the season, or in a drier year, he'd been able to get past the deep river pool that was just ahead and so take in the scene from there.
At Bodenham you are spoilt for choice, with long sandy beaches and river pools [see footnote].
They are similar to river pools that the city had 70 or 80 years ago, Mr. Barwick said.
Walks up the stony river bed to swim in river pools (outside the rainy season) are a boon for weary travellers.
A hot summer's afternoon will see young people appear, as if by magic, at river pools where their parents and grandparents swam.
For good places to swim along its length, he recommends "Grassington, Burnsall and Appletreewick – delightful little villages famous for their grassy meadows and wonderful river pools".
