Revelers in costumes get their photo taken before they enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York.

Cold temperatures didn’t stop a huge crowd from participating in the 122nd Annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Plunge. Starting at 11 a.m., more than 4,000 people braved the weather and ...

The Pittsburgh Polar Bear Club organized the jump from the landing of the Mon Wharf and those who were brave enough to bear the winter water prepared for the prickly skin around 8:30 on Wednesday ...

This happened at the Polar Bear Plunge. Participants headed to Paradise Inn Bar and Grille on Pensacola Beach, some in costume, to start the new year off with a dip into the Santa Rosa Sound. “ ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) – On New Year’s Day, thousands of people headed to the beaches for Flora-Bama’s 40th annual Polar Bear Dip to ring in 2025. Family, officials speak out after 3 killed ...

The annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge drew thousands of people to the beach on New Year’s Day as participants took a freezing dip to ring in 2025 while raising record funds for local nonprofit ...

One of Vancouver's favourite New Year's Day traditions — the annual Polar Bear Swim — was celebrated by thousands again on Wednesday, in an event that has now spread across the world.

I don’t care how crazy that makes me sound.” It’s all for the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club’s New Year’s Day Polar Plunge. “I am 60 years old, but when I jump in that water I ...

While they might not have been able to feel their toes, some Islanders say they now feel ready for 2025 after doing the polar bear plunge in Summerside, P.E.I., on Wednesday. Many ran into the ...

Some 750 people took part in the Courage Polar Bear Dip in Oakville., Ont., just west of Toronto on Wednesday. Aiden Peel, who travelled more than 100 kilometres from Innisfil, Ont., to take the ...

Thousands of people braved frigid waters on New Year’s Day to participate in Polar Bear Swims around B.C. Crowds for the plunge in White Rock, which celebrated its 55th anniversary this year ...

This year marks the 39th year that Courage Polar Bear Dip for World Vision has taken place, raising a total of over $2 million to date. Dressed in just about anything from bikinis, baby New Year ...