What is "bathers"

Usage examples of "bathers".

The bathers reappeared on the grass-ridge, racing and flapping wet towels.

The colonel had been one of the bathers, and he stood like a circus-driver flicking a wet towel at Crossjay capering.

Today there were not half a dozen carriages and omnibuses altogether, and the bathers were few-nursery maids, fragments of a day-excursion, and some of the fair conventionists.

And if the women on the promenade were homely and ill-dressed, even the bonnes in unpicturesque costumes, and all the men were slouchy and stolid, how could any one tell what an effect of gayety and enjoyment there might be when there were thousands of such people, and the sea was full of bathers, and the flags were flying, and the bands were tooting, and all the theatres were opened, and acrobats and spangled women and painted red-men offered those attractions which, like government, are for the good of the greatest number?

If I could only reach the other bathers, I would be just one more head.

I found it very easy to mentally impose bright banners on the balconies and put bathers around the pool.