Outdoor swimmers wore Father Christmas hats as they kicked off their celebrations with a festive dip in Hyde Park’s Serpentine. Sea surface temperatures across the country were between 8C and 11C, the ...

Members of the Serpentine Swimming Club take part in the Peter Pan Cup race, which is held every Christmas Day at the ...

It’s a degrees of separation thing. In London, you’re never more than three connections away from someone who loves a cold water swim — and wants you to know all about it. But who are these people who ...

It's official: society has given us the green light to go to the beach and jump in the sea on Christmas Day. Once a time reserved for playing parlor games with family in best dresses and slacks, we ...

Dozens of hardy “wild swimmers” are defying freezing temperatures and the first snow flurries of the winter for a pre-work dip in the Serpentine. Amber Williams and Bizzy Arnott were among about 40 ...

A sign warns people not to dive into the Serpentine - a physical impossibility when the water's frozen Credit: REUTERS Julian Guy and Tessa Eastman from the Serpentine Swimming Club swim in a hole in ...

LONDON, England, March 7. HYDE Park in London stands alone among the greatest urban parks in the world. While its city counterparts from Central Park (New York) to Park G?ell (Barcelona), Wiener ...

Swimming outdoors and wild swimming have surged in popularity in the UK in recent years, with increasing numbers of Brits heading for the country’s beaches, lakes, lidos and outdoor pools to cool off, ...