From everyday questions to more complex problems, we’re asking the experts to lend us a hand. Throughout the series "Professional Help," we’ll hear some direct advice, for us not-so-direct Minnesotans ...

My mother signed me up for swim lessons at the age of 2. Just two short years later, I was competing at my first club swim meet with The Woodlands Swim Team (TWST). At 4 years old, I was the smallest ...

Vijaya Srivastava, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, took her first swimming lesson at age 68. She’s now a daily swimmer. Credit...Video by Aubrey Trinnaman for The New York Times Supported by ...

I have always been curious about those attractions where you can swim with dolphins. People say the experience is exhilarating. Turns out there is a swim-with-the-dolphins attraction at Marineland ...

Paul Birich spent four years in the tropical paradise known as University of Hawaii on a swimming scholarship. But Birich left his heart in San Anselmo. That’s why he came back five years ago after ...

It was nostalgia, not a desire to clear my head that first drew me to outdoor swimming in my 30s. I’d grown up close to water and spent my childhood at the beach, neck deep in the North Sea. The ...

Two swimmers, Conner Andrews and Sandie Pendleton, in the Milwaukee River. Not so many years ago, no one would dream of kayaking or canoeing the Milwaukee River. Now those activities are common. So, ...

Katie Ledecky. With the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio less than a year away, it’s a name you should get used to hearing. Earlier this month, the 18-year-old swimmer won five gold medals and set two ...

A cancer survivor from Conifer, Colorado, has become the first person to swim the English Channel four times without taking a break. Sarah Thomas swam more than 80 miles and spent around 54 hours in ...

Two swimmers, Conner Andrews and Sandie Pendleton, in the Milwaukee River. Not so many years ago, no one would dream of kayaking or canoeing the Milwaukee River. Now those activities are common. So, ...