Winter swimming in North America

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• The members of Canadian and American "polar bear golf equipment" pass outdoor bathing or swimming inside the center of wintry weather. In a few areas, it is uncommon or ceremonial sufficient to attract press coverage. "Polar undergo plunges" are performed as fund-raisers for charity, significantly the Special Olympics. Cosmo Kramer briefly joins a New York polar bears club in the sitcom Seinfeld.

• The Russian immigrant professor Louis Sugarman of Little Falls, NY turned into the first American to come to be a well-known ice swimmer inside the 1890s. He attracted international interest for his day by day plunge inside the Mohawk River, even if the thermometer hit −23 °F (−31 °C), earning him the nickname "the human polar undergo".

• The oldest ice swimming membership inside the United States is the Coney Island Polar Bear Club of Coney Island, New York, based in 1903 by using Bernarr MacFadden. The membership organizes an annual polar plunge on New Year's Day in addition to normal swims in the Atlantic Ocean every Sunday from November to April.