After a childhood spent not knowing how to swim, lifelong "shallow-ender" Ben Pobjie finally took the plunge as an adult. It was painful and humiliating, but also exciting and life-affirming.

Swim for fitness. That sounded easy: I already knew how to swim. So one day I stood on the pool deck looking at all the other happy lap swimmers, from speedy athletes to the portly old lady ...

Knowing how to swim can help you have fun at the pool or beach this summer. But it could also save your life. Here are some tips to start swimming at any age.

Doing laps and making waves: How to pick a swim tracker We tested a number of swim-capable fitness trackers to see which are worth the hype.

Teaching More Adults to Swim For adults, learning to swim poses particular challenges: it's more difficult physically and frankly, a little embarrassing.

WATER safety campaigns have been tailored around teaching children to swim — but more than two adults drown in Australian waterways for every child, according to Austswim statistics.

At the YMCA, trained instructors teach all ages and abilities how to swim, including an adult swim class student, Anitha Balachandran, who’s in her 40s.

The flood of emails about Equinox pools keeps pouring in (sorry, Friday is pun day at Curbed). One reader dunked us for not doing our research and determining exactly which clubs had pools. (We ...