Adult Swimming Lessons
It’s never too late to learn to swim or improve your technique.
Swimming is great for your fitness, heart health, and mental wellbeing – it can lift your mood, reduce stress, and help you stay active at any age.
Beyond the health benefits, learning to swim opens up opportunities for fun with family, water activities on holiday, or a lifelong healthy hobby. Most importantly, it’s a vital life skill that could save your life.
Discover the confidence, fitness, and enjoyment that come from swimming with Aquatics Aberdeen.
Who can join
Our adult lessons are open to anyone aged 16 and over. You’ll learn in a friendly class alongside other adults at a range of ages and stages, from teenagers building water confidence to people learning for the first time later in life or returning to the water after years away. Whatever brings you, you won’t be the only one starting out.
To book just select your preferred venue and filter by “Weekly Lessons > Swimming Lessons Adults”
Venues
Our adult swimming lesson programme runs at the following pools:
- Bridge of Don Swimming Pool
- Bucksburn Swimming Pool
- Get active @ Cults
- Get active @ Northfield
- Tullos Swimming Pool
Class Levels
Aquatics Aberdeen offers a range of lessons for adults at all levels of ability and with different aspirations.
These lessons are great for adults who have never had the opportunity to learn to swim, have limited swimming ability, or are afraid of the water. The focus is on building confidence in the water and moving on to improving stroke technique.
Classes for Adults who can swim out of their depth but require some guidance to improve their swimming technique, fitness, and stamina.
Classes for Adults who wish to improve their swimming technique, fitness, and stamina.
These are coached sessions, ideal for advanced adults who can confidently swim 100m using a minimum of three strokes. Adult skills and drills sessions are designed to further develop swimming technique with an introduction to swimming drills. Theses drills are used to develop existing skills while increasing stamina and endurance.
Tullos Swimming Pool and Get active @ Northfield offer Active Lifestyles public swimming sessions and Aqua Zumba classes, ideal for older adults and those living with a long-term health condition. To view the current timetable of classes please view our interactive timetable
The Good Boost Aqua Move programme aims to improve people’s lives by getting them moving with gentle water-based and land-based exercise in a fun and social environment. Good Boost is designed to be fun and beneficial for individuals with a range of musculoskeletal conditions including; back pain, joint replacement, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis & osteopenia.
Beginner classes for Adults with a strong fear of water, working on water confidence and introductory skills.
Cost
Classes operate on a 50-week continuous programme, payable by a monthly direct debit of £35.50 with a minimum contract of four months. There is a two-week break over the Christmas period.
Booking Information
Get active for Less
We are committed to making sport and physical activity accessible to everyone. Our ‘Get active for Less’ discounted access scheme offers a range of pay and play and membership discounts to those who meet the eligibility criteria. This can be applied to all of our Learn to Swim products! Find out more here.
Holiday intensive courses
If a 50-week programme feels like a big commitment, our holiday intensives are a great way to start. Instead of weekly lessons, you swim every day across a single week, which builds confidence and progress quickly. There is no direct debit and no minimum contract, just a one-week course.
Adult Beginner intensives are for anyone aged 16 and over who is new to swimming or has limited ability, and run as the same friendly, mixed-age class described above.
Summer 2026: Monday 27 July to Friday 31 July at Get active @ Cults. Five 45-minute sessions, £52.50 for the week. To book, look for “Adult Beginner (Age 16+)” in the list of Cults intensive courses. Times are shown when you book.
Alternatively, for more information or support with your booking please contact the Coached Programmes administration team on coachedprogrammes@sportaberdeen.co.uk or call 01224 047934, if engaged listen to the recorded message.