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Wikipedia: Winter swimming

Encyclopedia article on cold-water swimming in winter—ice-hole and polar-dip culture, events, acclimatisation themes, and cold-shock safety framing; tertiary vocabulary alongside voluntary-CWI reviews, not a substitute for RCT biomarkers.

Scope

Covers outdoor cold-water swimming in winter, ice-hole traditions, competition / club formats, and cold-shock / hypothermia safety topics that often appear when readers follow winter-swimmer cohort papers.

Evidence discipline

Treat health claims in the article as navigation and safety orientationinflammatory cytokines, DOMS, sickness absence, and mental-health scales belong to PubMed-linked rows on Cold exposure therapy (cold-exposure), Cold exposure & inflammation (cold-exposure-inflammation), and Cold water immersion (cold-plunge).

Pairing in this wiki

  • espeland-2022-voluntary-cold-water-health-narrative-review — mixed-modality 104-study landscape including winter swimmers.
  • czarnecki-2025-cwi-frequency-mental-health-cross-sectionalhabitual outdoor-style plungers questionnaire tier.
  • wikipedia-cold-shower-overviewhome shower stimulus vocabulary distinct from open-water exposure.

Outcomes

  • stress-response
    Tertiary overview of winter-swimming practice, event culture, and cold-shock safety themes—quantitative clinical outcomes require linked PubMed trials and meta-analyses on cold protocols in this database.
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