Brave swimmers braced themselves for the cold as they ran into the sea in Suffolk for the Christmas Day swim.

This footage shows the festive scene on Lowestoft beach as locals dressed up as elves and in Santa hats splashed into the water.

Hardy revelers across the country took part in the traditional dip on Christmas morning despite the chilly temperatures.

According to the Met Office, northern England saw temperatures of 6C at 8 am, while the south was a bit warmer at 10C.

Grey Dippers raise over £24,000 by swimming in the Firth of Clyde at Ardrossan South Beach.

A team of wild swimmers brave the bracing Boxing Day cold to complete the last of more than 300 charity dips to raise more than £22,000 for a food bank.

Members of the Grey Dippers fundraising group have been taking the plunge at South Beach, Ardrossan, every day since the end of October to generate cash.

The initial aim was to raise £1,000 for the North Ayrshire Food Bank.

But the nine-strong team was backed by their local community who dipped into their pockets to send the tally soaring.

And finally over to the Czech Republic, where the capital Prague hosted its annual Boxing Day swim.

Hundreds of winter swimmers braved the chilly waters of the city’s Vltava River on Monday.

Participants swam races of 100, 300, and 750 meters in the river, where the water temperature was around 5 degrees Celsius.

The Boxing Day winter swim is held in honor of Albert Nikodem, a Prague goldsmith who popularized winter swimming in the 1920s.

Participants came from the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the UK, and the United States.