Add additional activity types for swimming: Open water, cold plunge, ice swimming

[evdb]

As a triathlete I very much would like to tag my swim as either openwater or swimming pool.
Can you make this possible?
I still get the idea that swimming is not very extensive supported on Strava.

[Jan_Mantau]

Is something wrong with the existing tag?

[evdb]

In Garmin there is an distinction in activity type. I do not like to use a tag to make it indoor.
On type is easier in filtering.

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to have separate Sport Types for openwater swimming vs. (indoor) swimming pool swimming. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting. The indoor tag is currently available for swims, as pointed out by @Jan_Mantau and we recommend using that to differentiate your swims in the meantime.

[Jaybarbelo]

Has this been done yet? It's a no brainer, open water, pool swim, they are very different activities 

[ptuffner]

Can you add "Cold-Plunge" and "Winter Swimming" to the activities list? Parameters to record should include water temperature (manual entry?) duration, heart rate, ambient temperature and for Winter Swimming, the distance.

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[ChrisUU]

Yeh, that woud be awsome👍

[ChrisUU]

That woud be so nice👌🤞

[Strudog]

I would like to see this brought in. Please Strava 🙏

[ejspearing]

I'd love to see a distinction made between open water and indoor pool. @Jan_Mantau  and @Soren say there is an 'indoor' tag, but it is not visible on mobile only on desktop. And even on desktop it is not that obvious, so who would bother to click it?. So I'd be real keen for a separation of these activities just as there is with 'MTB' and 'Gravel' for bikes. My Suunto watch has the separation, but it is not transferred through on upload to Strava. Currently I'm getting hammered in my Strava swim club @RubyFreshOWS by all the pool swimmers who hardly ever open water swim (because it's winter here in NZ!). It would be an awesome upgrade!! Thanks @evdb for bringing it up!

[Pauljaquin]

Great idea! Please make it happen.  Pool swims are very different from the open water!

[MLSwim]

Absolutely love the idea of separating Open Water, Pool , Ice Swimming , Winter Open Water Swimming and Ice Plunges out into separate activities because they are so very different and the effects they have on the body is also very different. Thanks for considering this. 

[Jane]

Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to add your votes and comments to this request. 

We want to let you know that we do not intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned.

We appreciate and understand this is not the answer you were hoping for. We strive to be as transparent as possible and provide updates to our Community when they become available. 

Please remember that we receive a large number of idea submissions, and even some  popular ideas may not make it to the implementation stage. The number of votes an idea gets is one factor among several that’s considered when our product team develops the roadmap.

For more information, review our Guide to Ideas.

Additionally, a status of not currently planned does not mean this feature suggestion goes away. It will remain open to votes and comments, and may be revisited at some point in the future.

Lastly, we sincerely hope you will continue recording and uploading your activities to Strava. Here is a list of the Sport types that we currently support. It’s always an option to set your activity to sport type “workout” and indicate more specifics in the activity name.

Thanks again for your contributions.