With plenty of free or pay-as-you-go aquatic centres around the city and a number of membership-only options, there’s no shortage of opportunities to wade in the waters year-round.
Agincourt Rec Centre
31 Glenwalford Dr
The Agincourt Recreation Centre in Scarborough has, hands down, one of the best indoor pools for kids in Toronto and the GTA. There is a huge, twisty water slide that ends in a chute, which means children do not need to pass a swim test to ride.
Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre
875 Morningside Ave
This sports complex is an athlete's mecca, and is the largest legacy facility of the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. The public competitive facility by U of T’s Scarborough campus has two Olympic-sized 10 lane swimming pools, as well as a 25m diving tank with diving platforms and spring diving boards.
Beaches Recreation Centre
6 Williamson Rd
This rec centre in The Beaches includes a public pool that mainly serves as a facility for pre-school/school-aged programs, as well as fitness for adults. They offer lane swimming, recreational swimming, and private programs.
Pam McConnell Aquatic Centre
640 Dundas St. E
Formerly called the Regent Park Aquatic Centre, this public pool in Regent Park has you covered for all your swimming needs. Huge windows let in a ton of natural light, and there's a 25-meter lap pool, spa pool, tarzan rope and water slide. The centre also has gender-neutral locker rooms and showers.
Miles Nadal JCC
750 Spadina Ave
Head to the Freddie Shore Aquatic Centre in this facility right across from Spadina station and you'll be treated to a fully-accessible heated saltwater pool in the heart of downtown. Monthly memberships range in price, so check their website for more info.
Etobicoke Olympium
590 Rathburn Rd.
Another training venue for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, this aquatic centre on Rathburn Rd. has an Olympic-sized 50-metre pool, in case you want to practice your synchronized swimming routine. For the rest of us, there’s also a smaller leisure pool.
Jimmie Simpson
870 Queen St. E
Sitting in this longtime Leslieville community centre is an indoor pool that hosts lessons, synchronized swims, certification programs and other activities. There are two swimming pools, one of which is a shallow tot pool.
University of Toronto Athletics Centre
55 Harbord St.
U of T's gym boasts two different types of indoor pools accessible to the public: the 50-metre Varsity pool and the 25-metre Benson pool. You can access either with a community membership that's $97 per month, or $17.70 a day.
YMCA Cooper Koo
461 Cherry St.
This Cherry Street branch of the YMCA is probably best known as the training facility at the Pan Am Games. It's a mega 82,000 square foot open concept facility, and has a 25-metre lap and recreation pool that you can use with a membership that ranges between $45 and $57.
Douglas Snow Aquatic Centre
5100 Yonge St.
The Olympic-size pool by Mel Lastman Square boasts two epic water slides (one is a towering, swirling affair that drops you into the shallow end), leisure swims, and free aquafit classes all week.
