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2. Swimming pool - Wikipedia

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   A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and may be found as a ...

3. Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center - Wikipedia

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   The Parks Department partnered with the Economic Development Corporation and plans re-commenced for New York City to build its first public indoor swimming pool in 40 years. [8] Upon its completion in February 2008, the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium and Ice Rink became the largest recreation complex ever built in a city park at ...

4. London Aquatics Centre - Wikipedia

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   The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor facility with two 50-metre (164-foot) swimming pools and a 25-metre (82-foot) diving pool in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. The centre, designed by architect Zaha Hadid as one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics , was used for the swimming , diving and ...

5. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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   The new Olympic-sized swimming pool was designed to provide advantages to competitors. Increasing the lane count from eight to ten introduces a "buffer lane", helping to absorb waves generated by movements of the swimmers. [5] The increased depth of the pool assists the lane lines in dissipating water churn, thereby creating less hydrodynamic ...

6. Columbia Indoor Pool - Wikipedia

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   The Columbia Indoor Pool is an indoor year-round public pool facility located in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally constructed as an open-air pool in the late 1920s, a wooden-dome roof was added in 1975. The facility was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the closure declared permanent due to structural issues in December ...

7. Public swimming pools in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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   One of these was the Tsuen Wan Swimming Pool, opened 1975, which was the first public swimming pool in the New Territories. The name was changed to Kwai Shing Swimming Pool in 1978. [ 6 ] The standardised design of the complex is typical of the era, incorporating two 50-metre pools, changing rooms and lobby located mostly underneath a covered ...