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  2. Tubing (recreation) - Wikipedia

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    Tubing, also known as inner tubing, bumper tubing, towed tubing, biscuiting (in New Zealand), or kite tubing, is a recreational activity where an individual rides on top of an inner tube, either on water, snow, or through the air. The tubes themselves are also known as "donuts" or "biscuits" due to their shape.

  3. Swim ring - Wikipedia

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    Child size A vehicle inner tube being used as a swim ring in 1916 Tubes on 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.

  4. Expandable water toy - Wikipedia

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    Water Balz look like marbles, but expand to 57 millimetres (2.2 in), [2] the size of a racquetball, in water. [3] Orbeez expand to 14 millimetres (0.55 in) in water. [2] Expandable water toys are also sold in the shapes of other things, such as dinosaurs, sharks, people or mechas from popular anime.

  5. Pool noodle - Wikipedia

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    Colorful pool noodles. A pool noodle is a cylindrical piece of flexible, buoyant polyethylene foam. Pool noodles are used by people of all ages while swimming. Pool noodles are useful when learning to swim, for floating, for rescue reaching, in various forms of water play, and for aquatic exercise.

  6. Inflatable armbands - Wikipedia

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    Inflatable armbands, usually referred to as simply armbands, water wings, swimmies, or floaties, are swim aids designed to help a wearer float in water and learn to swim. [ 1 ] Inflatable armbands are typically cylindrical , inflatable plastic bands that are inflated and worn on the upper arms.

  7. Spiral watertube boiler - Wikipedia

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    Climax boiler, arrangement of tubes from above Climax boiler. Spiral water-tube boilers are a family of vertical water-tube boilers. Their steam generating tubes are narrow spiral tubes, arranged in circular fashion around a central vertical water drum. The water tubes are long, numerous and of 2 inches (50 mm) diameter, or smaller.

  8. Pop pop boat - Wikipedia

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    In pop pop boats with two exhaust tubes, the water is expelled from both tubes during the first phase of the cycle, and drawn in from both tubes during the second phase of the cycle. The water does not circulate in through one tube and out through the other. The internal-combustion analog of the pop pop boat engine is the valveless pulse jet.

  9. Shishi-odoshi - Wikipedia

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    It consists of a segmented tube, usually of bamboo, pivoted to one side of its balance point. At rest, its heavier end is down and resting against a rock. A trickle of water into the upper end of the tube accumulates and eventually moves the tube's centre of gravity past the pivot, causing the tube to rotate and dump out the water. The heavier ...