Participants leave the starting line in the annual 'Santa Speedo Run', a charity race through the streets of the Back Bay neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Participants in Boston's annual 'Santa Speedo Run' leave the starting line. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
A man in a Santa hat takes part in a charity swim at the marina of the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Floriana, outside Valletta, Malta. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Competitors take part in the annual Great Santa run in the grounds of West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
People take part in a half-naked 'Santa run' in downtown Budapest, Hungary. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Runners dressed as Father Christmas take part in the so-called 'Nikolaus Run' in the East German town of Michendorf, 40km southwest of Berlin. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
A woman wearing a niqab passes a group of people dressed as Father Christmas on a Santa-themed pub crawl in London. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
A dressed as Santa swims with sardines at The Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
Children start in the so-called 'Nikolaus Run' in the East German town of Michendorf. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Two people among the 1000 who took part in the annual Santa Dash in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
As Christmas approaches, people have been getting into the festive spirit by taking part in a variety of Santa-themed events around the world, as this selection of images shows.
