The “wild swimming” trend — aka open-water swimming, or taking dips in lakes, rivers, streams or even the sea — isn't exactly new. Still, it has been increasing in popularity over the past decade, ...

Wild swimming has grown massively in popularity in recent times. Not only is swimming outdoors a pleasant way to enjoy the sunshine, fresh air and green leafy surroundings, it can also help to relieve ...

While wild swimming during the depths of winter might seem like a slightly mad idea, it's a pastime that's becoming hugely popular. In fact, part of the ritual of this slow living hobby often involves ...

It’s not hard to argue that summer fun starts with safety. On Thursday, June 20, some 200 people, mostly kids, practiced their swimming at Wild Rivers Waterpark in Irvine, where plenty of fun will be ...

There’s something undeniably magical about wild swimming. After miles on the trail, few things rival the feeling of slipping into a cool, natural pool surrounded by mountains, trees, or open skies.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Wet 'N' Wild Water World held a free event Thursday to show people how to swim. The swimming lessons were held at the "Wild Island Wave Pool" with lifeguards guiding ...

Preparing to jump out of the second-floor window and into the river below, I felt the acute sense that my anxiety was about to be washed away. It was a balmy July day in perhaps the most ...

It was nostalgia, not a desire to clear my head that first drew me to outdoor swimming in my 30s. I’d grown up close to water and spent my childhood at the beach, neck deep in the North Sea. The ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - As the temperature rises in South Georgia, it is the perfect time for families to participate in water-related activities, but according to Wild Adventures Theme Park, July is ...

Last year’s closure of two YWCA fitness centers sunk the Otters, a competitive youth swimming program in Minneapolis, which no longer had a pool to call home. But when that opportunity dried up, ...