Basic Trope: A character swims in the nude.
- Straight: Alice disrobes before going for a swim in the lake.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice swims nude in the lake, the pond, the river, and public fountains.
- Alice only ever swims nude.
- Alice is always seen nude and swimming, or else on her way to or from somewhere to swim nude.
- Multiple characters swim in the nude.
- Alice scuba dives naked.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is wearing Barely-There Swimwear.
- Underwear Swimsuit
- Justified:
- Alice is a hippie woman who does this to commune with nature.
- Alice likes to be as hydrodynamic as possible when swimming.
- Alice thinks she can get away with it.
- Alice has no swimsuit.
- It's so hot, Alice would overheat even if she wore a swimsuit in the lake.
- Alice was dared to swim in the lake with no clothes on.
- Inverted:
- Alice is naked all the time except when swimming.
- Alice dresses up further to go swimming.
- Non-Nude Bathing
- Subverted: Alice strips on the beach ... to her swimsuit, which she was wearing as underwear.
- Double Subverted: She removes her swimsuit too.
- Parodied:
- Alice lives on one or more bodies of water; this is the most common means of active transportation.
- Alice swims nude in a large basin of some non-water liquid. Bonus points if it's white.
- Alice is Bob's Lilliputian companion and he lets her do laps naked in his dishes.
- Zig-Zagged:
- (Played Straight + Averted) Alice skinny-dips on some days, not on others.
- (Continued from Double Subverted) Alice only doffed her swimsuit to sunbathe and get an all-over tan. She puts it back on before getting in the water. But her suit doesn't stay on her.
- Averted: Nobody swims naked.
- Enforced: Fanservice.
- Lampshaded:
- "Hey, Bob, there's a nude woman climbing out of the river!"
- "No barriers between you and the water — it's the only way to swim!"
- Invoked: Alice visits a nude beach.
- Exploited: Bob pulls Outdoor Bath Peeping and/or Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen on Alice.
- Defied:
- Alice catches Bob trying to spy on her and drives him away ... or, alternatively, makes a point of making sure he sees her diving into the lake fully clothed.
- Bob stops Alice from getting naked before swimming. She's in a public place and she must Think of the Children!
- Alice changes her mind about swimming at all as soon as she sees how polluted the beach is.
- Discussed: "It's so hot, it feels like the most logical thing to do would be to strip naked and jump in the lake."
- Conversed: "Alice is so lucky she can get away with that."
- Implied: Alice talks about swimming every day she can, but she's shown not to own a bathing suit.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice gets ill or injured from swimming nude with no barriers between herself and whatever harmful detritus was in the water.
- Alice opens herself to embarrassment if she's spotted.
- Reconstructed:
- She solves both potential pitfalls by installing a pool on her property with barriers to access and viewing by others.
- She is Made of Iron.
- She doesn't care much who sees her in her birthday suit.
- Played for Laughs:
- Naked People Are Funny.
- Alice previously denounced skinny-dipping, so when she's found to be doing just that, it's played for Hypocritical Humor.
- Played for Drama: Alice is Hollywood Homely and falls victim to body-shaming by bullies.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice is eaten alive while she swims nude.
- Alice is swimming nude when a rapist sees her, and...well...
Go back to Skinny Dipping
