take the waters

take the waters (third-person singular simple present takes the waters, present participle taking the waters, simple past took the waters, past participle taken the waters)

1. To attend a spa with healing thermal waters.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:

     The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.