cold showers
Icy morning wakeups
Cold showers are showers taken with cold or unheated water, often promoted for purported health benefits like improved circulation, alertness, or mental discipline.
The phrase also carries figurative meaning: to take a cold shower suggests calming down from sexual arousal or intense emotion.
Someone might be told to take a cold shower when they're getting too worked up about something, whether lustfully or otherwise.
- icyFrozen or unfriendly
- ice bathTherapeutic immersion in frigid water
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- bracingRefreshingly keen or stimulating
- bathingImmersion for cleanliness
shock · invigorating · thermogenesis · gasp · teeth chattering · turning blue · refreshing · rinsing · discomfort · brave face · shiver · goosebumps · resilience · polar bear plunge · circulation · discipline · endorphins · dopamine
- energizerscoffee, caffeine, energy drinks, energy drink, espresso
- wake-up thingsalarm clocks, roosters, coffee, espresso, caffeine
- washingwashing, rinsing, scrubbing, soaking, lathering
- Penanceconfession booth, act of contrition, contrition, penitent, public penance
- self-control techniquesmeditation, deep breathing, counting to ten, mindfulness, delay tactics
- survival tacticspanhandling, dumpster diving, scavenging, squatting, rough sleeping
cold showershot baths
Heated water immersions
warm baths · hot tubs · steam rooms · saunas · heated pools
cold showersspa treatments
Therapeutic beauty services
bubble baths · pampering · jacuzzi · sauna · Turkish bath
cold showersaphrodisiacs
Desire-stimulating substances
turn-ons · foreplay · arousal · seduction · titillation
cold, cooler, coldness, coolness, chilled, cooling, cooled, colder, showers