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A swimming float, commonly known as pool float or floaty, is a device used for toddlers or other very young children who are beginning to learn how to swim, or during exercise for therapeutic or training purposes. These devices, which come in many shapes and types, are used to aid them with buoyancy, or for floating on for fun.
Artistic or synchronized swimming consists of swimmers performing a synchronized routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music. Diving, the sport of jumping off springboards or platforms into water; Finswimming is a sport similar to traditional swimming using fins, monofin, snorkel, and other specific devices
Swimming relies on the nearly neutral buoyancy of the human body. On average, the body has a relative density of 0.98 compared to water, which causes the body to float. However, buoyancy varies based on body composition, lung inflation, muscle and fat content, centre of gravity and the salinity of the water.
A swim ring (also known as a swimming ring, swim tube, rubber ring, water donut, floatie, inner tube, or, in the United States, a lifesaver) is a toroid-shaped (hence the name "ring" or "doughnut") inflatable water toy. The swim ring was derived from the inner tube, the inflatable inner part of older vehicle tires. [1]
Qakshy Swimming Ring Inflatable Pool Float (2-Pack) Add a pop of pattern with Qakshy’s playful tube assortment. The swim ring is made of durable materials, while the double airbag design helps ...
Buy: Floating Mesh Pool Chair $126.65 . 2. Intex Sit ‘n Lounge Inflatable Pool Float
Many free-swimming sea slugs, such as sea angels, flap fin-like structures. Some shelled molluscs, such as scallops can briefly swim by clapping their two shells open and closed. The molluscs most evolved for swimming are the cephalopods. Violet sea-snails exploit a buoyant foam raft stabilized by amphiphilic mucins to float at the sea surface ...
Lifebuoy with emergency light on a cruise ship A lifebuoy floating on water. A lifebuoy or life ring, among many other names (see § Other names), is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. [1] Some modern lifebuoys are fitted with one or more seawater-activated lights to aid ...