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ice swimming

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

Noun

ice swimming (uncountable)

  1. The practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.
    • 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
    • Because I am going Ice Swimming, I am meeting a club of Tromsø Ice Swimmers.2015, Alexander Armstrong, Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures, 2016, Penguin Random House (Corgi), page 62

Questions about ice swimming

What does ice swimming mean?
Ice swimming means the practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.
What part of speech is ice swimming?
Ice swimming is a noun.

Words near ice swimming in the dictionary

  1. ice storms
  2. ice stupa
  3. ice stupas
  4. ice swimmer
  5. ice swimmers
  6. ice swimming
  7. ICE table
  8. ICE tables
  9. ice tea
  10. ice teas
  11. ice time

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