ice swimming
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- 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[edit]
Although ice swimming and winter swimming are not, strictly speaking, synonyms, they coincide in regions where open water ices over (only) in winter.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (swimming in icy water): winter swimming
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
swimming in iced-over water
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Further reading[edit]
- Open water swimming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia