Dad used to take us to the “local” pool (the town had 500 people and an indoor pool, but I have no clue which came first!) about once a week when we first moved down from Alaska.
Given the choice, swimming would be my only exercise.
During the summer I practically lived at the pool. It was a huge octagonal or maybe circular (it’s been a LONG time) pool. Sadly, I looked it up on Google Earth and it’s gone now.