ice swimming en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.
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.
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.
2011, Steven Munatones, Open Water Swimming, Human Kinetics, page 8:Winter swimming (or ice swimming) is not for everybody. People with a heart condition should not practice it.
2016, Harald Haarmann, Modern Finland, McFarland & Company, page 100:
Hypernyms
winter swimming (swimming in icy water)
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tr buz yüzüşü (swimming in iced-over water) · fr bain dans l'eau glacée (swimming in iced-over water) · pl morsowanie (swimming in iced-over water) · fi avantouinti (swimming in iced-over water) · bg зимно плуване (swimming in iced-over water) · uk моржува́ння (swimming in iced-over water) · sv vinterbad (swimming in iced-over water) · tr buzda yüzme (swimming in iced-over water) · fr bain de glace (swimming in iced-over water) · ru моржева́ние (swimming in iced-over water)