Freeswimmer
A freeswimmer is a sub cult of open water swimmers. Where freeswimmers are always open water swimmers, open water swimmers are not always freeswimmers. There are many swimmers that have participated in open water races (event swim) that have never done a freeswim (non event swim). Freeswimming takes place in open water, ocean, lake, river (non-pool) where you enter the food chain. A freeswim is an open water swim done solely for the pleasure of doing the swim. Open water races aren't considered a freeswim. For example if you swam a mile open water race and after the race you swam back to the start to get your car, you did both an open water race and a freeswim. A freeswim is generally considered a swim of at least one kilometer in distance. Any less than that is considered just a dip in the water. A pleasurable solo, unsupervised open water swim of a kilometer or more most closely defines a freeswim.
Darkswim: A freeswim done in the dark.
Darkswimmer: A freeswimmer that does darkswims.
free-swim·mer
| an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely. |