indoor swimming pool
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indoor swimming pool
A public swimming pool located inside an enclosed building and therefore usable regardless of the weather.
Im Winter gehen wir jeden Samstag ins Hallenbad schwimmen.
In winter, we go swimming at the indoor pool every Saturday.
The word is a simple compound of 'die Halle' (a large, enclosed building) and 'das Bad' (here in the sense of swimming pool). So it is literally a pool in a hall.
Das neue Hallenbad hat drei verschiedene Becken.
The new indoor swimming pool has three different pools.
Pay attention to the difference with the preposition 'in': you go 'ins Hallenbad' (to the indoor swimming pool; accusative, direction), but you are or swim 'im Hallenbad' (in the indoor swimming pool; dative, location).
Am Nachmittag gehen wir ins Hallenbad.
In the afternoon, we're going to the indoor swimming pool.
Typical verbs and expressions used with 'Hallenbad' (indoor swimming pool) are 'schwimmen gehen' (to go swimming), 'Bahnen ziehen' (to swim laps), or 'einen Schwimmkurs besuchen' (to attend a swimming course).
Mein Sohn besucht jeden Dienstag einen Schwimmkurs im Hallenbad.
My son attends a swimming course at the indoor swimming pool every Tuesday.
bathroom / bath
'das Bad' and 'das Hallenbad' can both mean a place for bathing or swimming. The important difference is: 'das Hallenbad' is always a public swimming pool inside a building. 'das Bad' is more general and can also mean the bathroom at home. This can lead to confusion: if someone says 'Ich gehe ins Bad' (I'm going to the bathroom), they usually mean the room in the apartment or house. If you want to go swimming and are talking about a building with pools, 'Hallenbad' is more precise.
Zum Schwimmen gehen wir heute ins Hallenbad, weil es draußen regnet.
We're going swimming at the indoor pool today because it's raining outside.
Nach dem Duschen putzt sie das Bad, weil Besuch kommt.
After showering, she cleans the bathroom because visitors are coming.