ice swimming
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English
Noun
- The practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.
- 2011, Steven Munatones, Open Water Swimming, Human Kinetics, page 8:
- The most serious cold water swimmers participate in competitive ice swimming events in bodies of water less than 41 °F (5 °C), sometimes carved out of frozen rivers or lakes and part of the International Winter Swimming Association and the International Ice Swimming Association.
- 2015, Alexander Armstrong, Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures, 2016, Penguin Random House (Corgi), page 62,
- Because I am going Ice Swimming, I am meeting a club of Tromsø Ice Swimmers.
- 2016, Harald Haarmann, Modern Finland, McFarland & Company, page 100:
- Winter swimming (or ice swimming) is not for everybody. People with a heart condition should not practice it.
Usage notes
Although ice swimming and winter swimming are not, strictly speaking, synonyms, they coincide in regions where open water ices over (only) in winter.
Hypernyms
- (swimming in icy water): winter swimming
Related terms
Translations
swimming in iced-over water
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Further reading
Open water swimming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
