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ice swimming

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 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.

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10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: зимно плуване (zimno pluvane) — swimming in iced-over water
  • Finnish: avantouinti — swimming in iced-over water
  • French: bain dans l'eau glacée — swimming in iced-over water
  • French: bain de glace — swimming in iced-over water
  • Polish: morsowanie — swimming in iced-over water
  • Russian: моржева́ние (morževánije) — swimming in iced-over water
  • Swedish: vinterbad — swimming in iced-over water
  • Turkish: buz yüzüşü — swimming in iced-over water
  • Turkish: buzda yüzme — swimming in iced-over water
  • Ukrainian: моржува́ння (moržuvánnja) — swimming in iced-over water