Swim cap

A swimming cap (even bathing cap, swimming cap, swimming cap and swimming cap called ) is a headgear which is worn while swimming.

Swimming caps are made ​​of textiles (eg Lycra or polyester), made ​​of silicone or rubber and are available in various colors and patterns, with or without decoration. When swimming, which is used for recreation, bathing caps are far more often by women than by men. In the professional swimming bathing caps fulfill another function: They reduce the resistance of the body in the water. Both women and men wear bathing caps here.

Until the late 1980s, it was in many public baths duty to wear a bathing cap, as the emergent swimming hairs could easily lead to blockages in the technical installations of pools. Today, use is widespread in improved filter technology, making it an obligation is only rarely to wear a bathing cap when swimming.

Swimming caps in team sports

In water polo and underwater hockey and underwater rugby special swim caps are used to protect and identify the players.

You have to protect your ears a hard plastic shell for each ear. The caps are fastened under the chin with two bands that resemble shoe laces very. The rest is material that extends from the hairline above the forehead almost to the hairline on the neck and the left lower jaw over the head up to the right mandible.

At the fabric twice to three times the 10 cm large number of the player is printed or sewn on. In international competitions must be on the forehead 3 cm large letters of the player's country code.