The Roskilde Naked Run: The Festival's Oldest, Barest Tradition

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000

There is a moment on the Saturday of Roskilde Festival, somewhere in the sprawling chaos of the campsite, when a crowd thickens along a stretch of dirt track, a countdown goes up, and a few dozen entirely naked people take off running for a lap while thousands cheer them home. This is the Roskilde Naked Run, and it is the daftest, most good-humoured, most reliably Danish thing on the whole festival calendar. I have stood in that crowd more than once — Roskilde is home turf for me, the festival I keep coming back to — and I can tell you the run is exactly as silly and exactly as warm-hearted as its reputation promises. Here is where it came from and why it still, gloriously, happens.

Naked-Run on vo.rs

The Roskilde Naked Run: The Festival's Oldest, Barest Tradition