Thousands of participants rang in the new year with a cold jump into the water at Coney Island for the 122nd annual Polar Bear Plunge on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

About 50 brave souls rang in the new year Wednesday by wading into a chilly creek at Valley View Park. The 15th annual Polar Bear Plunge was a fundraiser for the Pine Creek Trout Nursery.

: A group of hardy souls make an exuberant leap off a dock during the Polar Bear Plunge Monday, Jan. 1, 2020, at the Point Defiance Marina boat launch. Dozens of participants braved the cold waters, saying the annual event is a way to cleanse the soul,

Hundreds of people took the saying plunge into the new year literally in Pensacola. Read the full story: https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/hundreds-partake-in-polar-bear-plunge-on-pensacola-beach/

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

Hundreds of people jumped into freezing cold water along the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh on New Year's Day, all for a good cause. For hundreds, it's a New Year's Day tradition to take the big jump into the cold Monongahela River.

Chico residents braved frigid waters on Wednesday, all in the name of the New Year. Participants swam across Bidwell Park's Sycamore Pool as part of the annual

The city of Copperas Cove Parks and Recreation Department is hosting the 2025 Polar Bear 5K and Plunge Jan. 18.

Strangers volleyed dismissive colloquialisms back and forth as they emerged from the frigid waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene on New Year’s Day, partaking in the annual Polar Bear Plunge. Though trivializing the feeling, hundreds of sets of chattering teeth and cherry-red skin told a different story.

Thousands of New Yorkers braved the cold weather and water to plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday as part of the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge. Hosted by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club since 1903, dippers braced temperatures in the high 30s and low 40s F, with wind.