While wild swimming during the depths of winter might seem like a slightly mad idea, it's a pastime that's becoming hugely popular. In fact, part of the ritual of this slow living hobby often involves ...

The current cold snap has often brought the hardy out for a spot of winter swimming, if social media is anything to go by.

It’s the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and while it might not feel like the season for jumping in the water, more and more people are finding an icy plunge invigorating. William ...

Right here on the Upper Cape there is a group who suit up for 30 to 40 minutes of open water ocean swimming, year-round.

Year-round swim lessons are important to keep kids from forgetting what they’ve learned in the water”— Lisa Zarda, ...

NEWPORT, Vt. — Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone’s good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, ...

You may have fond memories of swimming at the lake as a kid, or maybe the closest that you get to swimming these days is laying by the hotel pool on your last vacation. But swimming can be more than ...

Lovers of winter swimming in costumes take a "bath" this month in the frigid Baltic Sea in Gdansk, Poland. Photo by Sergei Gapon Cold plunges, ice baths, polar plunges, Viking swimming...whatever the ...

Sasha Lauer loves wild swimming for the benefits it brings to her wellbeing but worries about the state of her local rivers. "We are pragmatic about it and are careful to keep our heads out of the ...