What do you think of adult swim at swimming pools?

12 comments

1. Dope. Thank god. Get those fuckers out

2. What you’re describing isn’t how the term is used at any pool I’ve ever been to, and your way seems like an intense waste of time and resources for all involved.

   I’ve always understood adult swim time to mean an hour or two session blocked off for adults to swim, usually early in the morning. Lifeguards divide the pool into lanes so that the slow swimmers can stay in one area without holding up faster swimmer. The point is, the adults can get a workout in, without risking a water winged toddler kicking them in the head accidentally or having to deal with ten year olds playing Marco Polo in their lane.

   To be clear, I’m totally okay with pools having time set aside for dedicated workouts some of the time. I’m confused as to the appeal of an “adult swim” as you describe it though.

3. Sucks when you’re younger…dope when you’re older.

4. Growing up our pool always had an hour block of adult swim in the morning and afternoon. It just gave us time to run to 7/11 for Slurpees and candy.

   As an adult, I’m not a swimmer, just a dipper. So it wouldn’t affect me at all. When I would go with my little kids it gave them time to rest, hydrate and reapply sunscreen.

5. 10 minutes every hour sounds a bit ridiculous.

   What I’ve seen is a set block of time (usually later at night or early in the morning for a few hours) that are dedicated to just lane swimming, which usually only appeals to adults, and it takes up half the pool.

   Kicking kids out of a pool once every hour just sounds tedious and annoying.

6. Public pools are used as public toilets so idc I’m not going lol

7. hated it when I was a kid, love the idea as an adult. But if / when I had kids I’d hate it again probably lol

8. It’s awesome when you’re the parent schlepping all those kids to the pool.

9. I only swim during adult swim. It’s so chill and relaxing.

10. As a childless adult it’s great. And it also gives the life guards a break.
    They are sitting in the sun for hours, staring at screaming kids getting paid $12.00. Also they can use that time to eat, check their phone and use the restroom.

11. I always hated that as a kid, I’m glad they got rid of it. I was like, “Why are we getting punished out of the pool?” Kids don’t understand. As an adult, if I want to be relatively free of kids I stay in the swim lanes or go during times where kids are less likely to frequent. That being said, I’ve been seeing a disturbing intolerance to children lately that we don’t want to share spaces with them. That’s life. They are works in progress, we have to tolerate them. And kids shouldn’t be made to feel left out, or not wanted by adults. Is the shreiking annoying sometimes? Yes. Do I not like getting splashed with water sometimes? Yes. But it’s just the nature of kids. You can’t blame them for that. By creating adult only spaces in public fun places you create hostility.

12. When I’m trying to swim laps and some kid is cannonballing in the lanes it sucks. Our lap lanes at our city pool are always adult only, and the lifeguards are good about keeping the kids out.