First, the fact that you’re submerged in water means your bones and muscles are somewhat unshackled from the constraints of ...

The City of Waterloo is reminding people to stay off Silver Lake and stormwater management ponds throughout the city because ...

TikToker Aleks Jevtic posted a clip capturing the moment two women realized they were in close proximity to the animal Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — About 20 children in shorts and vests gather at a swimming pool on a sweltering afternoon in Nigeria's economic hub of Lagos. A coach holds the hand of a boy who is blind as he ...

It’s 8am and I’m standing at the edge of my local lake at Beckenham Place Park in London, the early morning sun just beginning to peek over the trees. A layer of mist is rising from the cold water and ...

In a study well timed for its summer publication (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), scientists reviewed research related to open-water swimming (Overbury et al. 2023). It will come as little ...

For the first time in four years, the William W. Scranton Pool Complex at Lackawanna State Park will be filled with the sounds of people swimming and splashing. The swimming pool and splash pad at the ...

NORTH ADAMS — If you get caught swimming in the Mount Williams Reservoir off Pattison Road, it could cost you $300. According to nearby residents, though, people are still swimming. They’re just not ...

While the beach and swimming culture might feel like an intrinsic part of “Australianness”, this hasn’t always been the case.

As warmer weather returns so do the attractions of an outdoor dip. Its revitalising power, even when conditions are more bracing, has helped fuel a British craze for “wild swimming”. Now though, after ...

Every year, people lose rings, chains, and earrings while swimming. Most assume they’re gone forever. But the water doesn’t take things very far. When we went looking, what happened next surprised us.