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A swimming pool, swimming bath, or wading pool is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for recreational or competitive swimming, diving, or for other bathing activities that involve swimming, e.g. more...

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play, wading, water exercise, floating around on inner tubes, or merely cooling off on hot days. The chemical Chlorine is usually as a sanitiser, primarily to control bacteria and algae....

One can distinguish between private and public pools: in warm parts of the world private ones are usually outdoors, while public ones can be outdoors or indoors, with some complexes having both. In some parts of the world, a swimming pool for private use is considered a status symbol (an indoor private pool even more so). Swimming pools can be constructed either above ground (generally constructed from plastic and metal), or in the ground (usually formed either out of reinforced concrete and lined with special plaster, a one piece fiberglass shell, or prefabricated sectional walls and a vinyl liner).

History

The history of pools begins at the \"great bath\" constructed at the site of Mohenjo-Daro. It was most likely dug during the 3rd millennium BC. The pool, twelve by seven meters, is lined with bricks and during its time the pool was covered with a tar-based sealant.

Artificial swimming pools have also been built by the ancient Greeks and Romans who used them for athletic training in the palaestras and also for nautical games, and military exercises. Roman emperors had private swimming pools in which fish also were kept, hence the Latin word for pool, piscina.

Ancient Sinhalese built what is known as \"Kuttam Pokuna\" a pair of pools in the ancient kingdom of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (4th Century BC). Such pools were decorated with flights of steps, punkalas or pots of abundance and scroll design.

Modern-day swimming pools did not became popular until the middle of the 19th century. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards were built in London, England. After the modern Olympic Games began in 1896 and swimming races were among the original events, the popularity of swimming pools began to spread (Reference Britannica).

The Amateur Swimming Association was founded in 1869 in england, but it was much later, in 1909, that Oxford Swimming Club came into existence. One might guess that the presence of indoor baths in the cobbled area of Merton Street of London persuaded the less hardy of the aquatic brigade to join. So, bathers gradually became swimmers, and bathing pools swimming pools. Swimming was rather more than a toe in the water affair.

The Racquet Club of Philadelphia clubhouse (1907) boasts one of the world's first modern above ground-level swimming pools. The first swimming pool to go to sea on an ocean liner was installed on the Olympic.

After World War I and the departure of \"Long John\" style swimming costumes, the interest in competitive swimming grew. Standards improved and training became essential.

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