Bathing

Bathing is the washing of the body with a liquid, usually water or an aqueous solution, or the immersion of the body in water. It may be practiced for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes. By analogy, especially as a recreational activity, the term is also applied to sun bathing and sea bathing.Lucas Cranach, The Golden Age, 1530Titian, Actaeon Surprises Diana in Her Bath, 1559Wolfgang Heimbach, People Bathing, 1640François Boucher, Diana Leaving Her Bath, 1742Torii Kiyomitsu, Bathing Woman, 1750Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Bath, ca. 1880Edgar Degas, After the Bath, ca. 1890Paul Gauguin, By the Sea, 1892Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers (detail)Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Baths at Caracalla, 1899Max Liebermann, Bathing Boys, 1900Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Sad Inheritance, 1900. Crippled children bathing at the sea in ValenciaAnders Zorn, Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath, 1906Jean Metzinger, Baigneuse, Deux nus dans un jardin exotique (Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape), 1905–06Albert Gleizes, Les Baigneuses (The Bathers), 1912, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de ParisZinaida Serebriakova, Banya, 1913Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Soldier Bath, 1915Boris Kustodiev, Russian Venus, 1926Pablo Picasso, Quatre baigneuses (Four Bathers), 1922, Collection Paul Allenmandi v. to wash one's body with water and soap (by pouring water over or soaking one's body, etc.) p.871bak mandi n. something used to hold water for bathing , p. 121kamar mandi n. place for bathing , p. 611 Bathing is the washing of the body with a liquid, usually water or an aqueous solution, or the immersion of the body in water. It may be practiced for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes. By analogy, especially as a recreational activity, the term is also applied to sun bathing and sea bathing. Bathing can take place in any situation where there is water, ranging from warm to cold. It can take place in a bathtub or shower, or it can be in a river, lake, water hole, pool or the sea, or any other water receptacle. The term for the act can vary. For example, a ritual religious bath is sometimes referred to as immersion, the use of water for therapeutic purposes can be called a water treatment or hydrotherapy, and two recreational water activities are known as swimming and paddling.