Merry Christmas! Christmas photos from around the world
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A man dressed as Santa Claus skates on an ice rink across from the Eiffel Tower as part of the Christmas holiday season preparations, in Paris December 12, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen -CFP
On this Christmas Eve, we’ve found some Santa Claus’ from across the world to and some cheer to your holiday spirit.
Happy holidays!
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A man dressed as Santa Claus wakeboards in Hamburg December 6, 2009. REUTERS/Christian Charisius -CFP
Didi Senft, a cycling fan better known as ‘El Diablo’, rides his so-called ‘Santa Claus bicycle’ as he poses for the media in Storkow, some 50 km (31 miles) south of the German capital Berlin, December 2, 2009. Didi made the giant ‘Santa Claus bicycle’ in the shape of a sledge, which measures 7.30 metres (23.95 feet) long and about 3.10 metres (10.17 feet) high. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch -CFP
A diver dressed as Santa Claus swims with dolphins at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo November 15, 2009. The event will be held until December 25, 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao -CFP
A member of the “Skipper” yacht club dressed as Santa Claus, sails his trimaran to mark the ending of the sailboat season during heavy snowfall at an air temperature of above minus 8 degrees Celsius (17.6 Fahrenheit) on the Yenisei River, outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 18, 2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin -CFP
A man dressed as Santa Claus skates on an ice rink across from the Eiffel Tower as part of the Christmas holiday season preparations, in Paris December 12, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen -CFP
A man dressed as Father Christmas rides a bicycle on his way to a special Christmas post office in the village of Himmelpfort in the eastern German state of Brandenburg November 15, 2004. The German postal service is offering until Christmas Eve in Himmelpfort (Heaven’s Gate) a special Father Christmas office for mail from children from all over the world. In 2003 more than 210,000 children sent letters to Santa Claus and all have received replies. -CFP
A man dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent to Santa Claus, makes a bungee jump from a bridge across the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 27, 2009. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin -CFP
A spectator dressed as Santa Claus walks near the ice track during the men’s four-man Bobsleigh World Cup at the German resort of Altenberg December 7, 2008. -CFP
An Iranian Christian man dressed as Santa Claus stands outside the church of the Italian embassy during a Christmas Eve mass in Tehran December 24, 2006. -CFP
Father Christmas waves to children as he rappels down Tanninges’s church December 24, 2006. -CFP
A freerider dressed in Santa Claus costume, ski teacher Alberto Ronchi jumps in Madonna di Campiglio in northern Italy December 17, 2012. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini -CFP
A man, dressed as Santa Claus, waits to board a train at a subway station as part of a promotional event by a bank in Sao Paulo December 12, 2014. REUTERS/Nacho Doce -CFP
A man dressed as Santa Claus rides his Segway as he delivers gifts at the Christmas market in Hamburg, December 19, 2014. -CFP
Hector Chacon, a Guatemalan firefighter dressed as Santa Claus, walks before rappelling down from the Belize bridge to give toys to children living under the bridge, in Guatemala City December 22, 2013. Chacon has arranged every year for firefighters to dress as Santa Claus and give out toys during Christmas to children living in the poor neighbourhood under the bridge, for 16 years. -CFP
Issa Kassissieh, an Israeli-Arab Christian, wears a Santa Claus costume as he poses for the media in Jerusalem’s Old City, during the annual distribution of Christmas trees by the Jerusalem municipality December 22, 2014. -CFP
Local residents dressed as Father Frost, an equivalent of Santa Claus, and his granddaughter Snegurochka (Snow-Maiden), walk with servicemen as they visit check points of the Ukrainian army and self-defence units to congratulate the military with the coming of a New Year, near Lysychansk, Luhansk region, January 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maksim Levin -CFP
People dressed as Santa Claus ride their gondolas in the Venice lagoon December 20, 2014. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri -CFP
A student of the “Escola de Papai Noel do Brasil” (Brazil’s school of Santa Claus) wears his hat before lessons in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 27, 2015. The school, which was founded since 1993, prepare men to represent Santa Claus during the Christmas season. Lessons include singing, physical activity, how to dress and how to care for their beard. -CFP
Costumed participants attend the “Santa Claus Run” in Mogosoaia, near Bucharest December 6, 2014. About 100 participants attended the event organised for the benefit of the Romanian Association of Pediatric Orthopedists and Traumatologists. -CFP
A competitor surfs dressed as Santa Claus during the ZJ Boarding House Haunted Heats Halloween Surf Contest in Santa Monica, California, United States, October 31, 2015
A member of the special police forces dressed in a Santa Claus suit waves to staff as he descends from the roof of a pediatrics clinic in Ljubljana December 16, 2014. -CFP
A man dressed as a Santa Claus poses at the front of the Kollhoff Tower at Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke -CFP
A man dressed as Santa Claus skates on an ice rink across from the Eiffel Tower as part of the Christmas holiday season preparations, in Paris December 12, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen -CFP