'Wild swimming'? We used to just call it swimming | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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I love outdoor bathing, but I object to its appropriation by a privileged urban elite, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The romantic poets – Coleridge, Byron, Keats – loved to swim. Swimming in open water offered the opportunity to connect with nature, nourish creativity, garner spiritual inspiration and experience the sublime. Their obsession was called hydromania, and it’s back. “Wild swimming”, as it is now known, is growing in popularity across the UK. It is increasingly featured in the press and on social media, often coupled with intensely romantic language.

 

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Appropriation of swimming? Guardian, is this like The Borowitz Report or The Onion?

lol yes!

The Guardian gives it's own readers a smack on the snout, lol.

Or night swimming.

Dirty swimming

Or “Open Swimming”?

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