People plunge into freezing Lake Michigan during Chicago Polar Bear Club 24th annual Polar Plunge event at Oak Street Beach on Jan. 25, 2025. The event was sold out after selling 1,000 tickets.

there was the Milwaukee Polar Bear Club. And its members didn't just dive into frigid Lake Michigan on the first day of the year. In 1909, a Milwaukee printer named James G. Brazell decided the ...

Just after midnight on Jan. 1, people around the world will ring in the New Year to the sound of noisemakers and popping corks. But on New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach ...

Baby, it's cold outside - and feels even colder in the Atlantic Ocean! The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is getting hyped for its annual plunge into the waves on New Year's Day. Proclaimed as the ...

People participate in the 121st annual Polar Bear Plunge in Coney Island on January 1, 2024 in New York City. Paul Martinka ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Lustgarten’s group – the Coney Island Polar Bear Club – hosted the first winter water plunge in the United States on New Year’s Day ...

Newport, awish.org, check-in begins at 10:30 for noon plunge. The 21st annual event, sponsored by the Newport Polar Bears Club, benefits A Wish Come True, which grants wishes to seriously ill ...

Cold temperatures didn’t stop a huge crowd from participating in the 122nd Annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Plunge. Sugar, a Westie, stayed dry on the shore while his family ...

This year, a record-setting number of participants took part in the 121st annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year's Day plunge on Monday. "We ride bikes and jump in extremely cold water ...

It was her first time participating in the Fort Wayne Polar Bear Club’s annual New Year’s Day dip at Johnny Appleseed Park. She did it for giggles. “Why not, really,” she said.

The New Year's Day event expected to draw over 4,000 swimmers; the Coney Island Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing club in the United States, dating back to 1903. (Video by Anthony Behar ...