Rundgang durch das Freibad
A1 German listening practice · Standard German · Curated for beginners
What does “Freibad” mean in German?
A Freibad is an outdoor public swimming pool, and many German towns have one that opens for summer. The name is a trap for English speakers: frei doesn’t mean “free of charge” here — you still pay admission — it means “open” or “in the open air,” the same frei as in Freiluft (open-air). Its indoor counterpart, open year-round, is the Hallenbad.
A typical Freibad bundles several pools in one site — a lap pool, a kids' Babybecken, diving towers, slides, and often a whole lawn (Liegewiese) for sunbathing between swims, which is exactly the layout this clip walks through.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.