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

HARBIN, China (AP) — Even as the mercury dropped below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during an annual ritual in northeast China’s ice city of Harbin. The swimmers had ...

Winter swimming has its own festival now, and the third edition of the Ayia Napa event is approaching soon. Winter swimmers from Cyprus and abroad – as the festival has an international character – ...

As the temperature in Beijing hit -7C on Tuesday, 62-year-old Yang Zi stripped down to his swimming briefs and plunged into a frozen lake, as dozens of residents do every winter. Yang, a retiree, told ...

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Cold-water swimming is gaining followers across Europe. On Croatia’s Adriatic coast, one group has been promoting its health benefits for more than two decades. (AP video shot by Relja Dusek) Former ...

Amid war, displacement and loss, residents take to the Mediterranean each morning in a bid to reclaim hope, health and a ...

Meet the swimmers who swim in Lake Michigan year-round – even in winter weather. For many Chicagoans, Labor Day marks the end of the swim season. But the die-hard members of Open Water Chicago never ...