outdoor showers

Alfresco bathing stations

Outdoor showers are washing facilities installed outside, typically near pools, beaches, or in gardens.

They range from simple rinse-off stations to elaborate bathroom setups with hot water and privacy screens.

The appeal combines practicality—rinsing off sand or chlorine before entering—with the pleasure of bathing in open air: The beach house had an outdoor shower surrounded by bamboo.

Opposites
location/enclosure

outdoor showerswalk-in showers

Threshold-free bathing enclosures

bathtubs · indoor plumbing

bathing method

outdoor showersbath

Washing in water

hot tubs · jacuzzi · plunge pools · sponge baths

Family

outdoor, door, shower, showers, showering, showered, outdoors, doors, doored

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G