Meaning of ice swimming | Babel Free

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The practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.

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“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.”

“Winter swimming (or ice swimming) is not for everybody. People with a heart condition should not practice it.”

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