Cold water swimming is thought to have great health benefits.

I enjoy the social aspect of cold water swimming, too.

I wanted to find out what lies behind this tradition of cold water swimming.

Events like this show that that cold water swimming can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities.

Pugh believes it is a Pavlovian Response to years of cold water swimming.

"Cold water swimming helps.

Afterwards he plunged into a cold water swimming bath (the frigidarium) and was then massaged and oiled.

Rentoul is one of the organisers of the Cold Water Swimming Championships, which take place in Tooting Bec Lido in January, and she has noticed a significant increase in the event’s popularity.

The Finns are convinced of its health benefits, the Christmas Day swimmers of the Serpentine Swimming Club in London's Hyde Park wouldn't miss it and the Tooting Bec Lido in South London holds the British cold water swimming championships.

To celebrate both its and Tooting Bec Lido's centenary in 2006, the South London Swimming Club hosted several events including the first UK Cold Water Swimming Championships in January and a 3 day film festival, Dive in Movies, in July.

Wouldn't it be great to leap into a cold swimming pool about now!

It was full of great hiking, and really cold swimming holes.

Never go straight from a hot spa to a cold swimming pool.

And why had they found him drowned in the ice- cold swimming pool?

If they hopped in a cold swimming pool, they'd have a big problem.

People who stay in a cold swimming pool too long can develop a blue tinge on and around their lips.

“I’d far rather do that than jump into a cold swimming pool.”

Within four, he was swimming, the coldest swimming he had ever done.

Running for the cable is like diving into a cold swimming pool; Jesse is drenched in just one step.

Nasa studies have also shown that over a 12-week period, repeated cold swimming leads to substantial bodily changes known as "cold adaptation."

Everyone went to a Japanese buffet, but I stayed at the hotel, read, ate peanuts and dipped my feet in a really cold swimming pool.

Since it was Tuesday, the outdoor, cold swimming pool, built into the side of a hill, was being drained, scrubbed and refilled.

I jumped into a freezing cold swimming pool and pulled a muscle - or rather, the muscle, the one that helps you, you know, move.

Mr. Dole himself keeps darting inconsequentially toward the issue like a kid dipping his toe into a cold swimming pool.

And very challenging and uncomfortable it is. Sometimes listening to God is rather like reluctantly diving into a very cold swimming pool.

I had been exploring ocean and lake action on the West Coast since the day after our early spring tour, (April) and I have experienced some cold swimming.

Jordan Fincher was not happy when Irish defender Gavin Colton teased him about not wanting to do Marco's suggestion of ten minutes in the cold swimming pool.

Sometimes it seems like a cold swimming pool in early summer, so clear and perfect, but the only sane way in is to leap in all at once instead of trying to ease into it.

Only after being punctured by a giant hypodermic needle, dunked in a cold swimming pool and having every part of their bodies weighed and measured will they be allowed to enjoy a celebratory drink.