wade
v.v. to walk through water that is not very deep. You can also use it to describe working through a lot of difficult information or paperwork.
v. to walk with effort through water or another liquid substance that provides resistance. Often used figuratively to describe progressing through a large volume of tedious material.
The children love to wade in the shallow pool.
We had to wade through the flooded street to reach the dry sidewalk on the other side.
The researcher spent months having to wade through thousands of archived documents to find a single mention of the lost ship's manifest.
From Old English wæd (“a ford”).
The verb is intransitive when describing the physical act of walking in water, but takes the preposition 'through' when describing the material being navigated.