to tube
- verb
- /tuːb/
- Informal
- On hot days, many families head to the lake to tube and enjoy the sunshine.
Examples
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We're gonna tube him! #WALLS #Frank! #FRANK #
Fiction book (1999) -
I obviously she's just being funny, but Amber, Amber was so excited about the ability to tube down that Creek ditch.
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Take a day trip to a place where you can tube or sail, or spend a day checking out museums and galleries.
Blog text (5) -
During the summer, we love to tube on the river with our friends.
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The kids were thrilled to tube down the snowy slope at the ski resort.
Synonyms
To be supported on something so it stays or moves a little
Idioms
Try to make things the way they were after they changed
Compounds
- Specialized
A small glass tube closed at one end used in labs to hold, heat, or mix liquids
- Specialized
One of two thin tubes in a woman's body that carry an egg from the ovary to the womb
- Informal
A baby that doctors make from an egg and sperm outside the mother's body and put in her womb
- Archaic
A large glass device in old TVs and computer screens that makes pictures with a beam of electrons
- Archaic
A long glass tube inside old televisions that makes the picture on the screen
- Specialized
A small soft tube with a sucker that starfish and sea urchins use to move, eat, and breathe
- Specialized
A flexible tube placed in the windpipe to keep the airway open and help breathing
- Specialized
A glass container filled with neon gas that glows when electricity passes through it
- Specialized
A narrow tube that connects the middle ear to the throat and equalizes ear pressure
- Specialized
A small tube that measures how fast air moves to show an airplane's speed
- Specialized
A tube-shaped part of a flower that holds the leaf-like parts under the petals, often seen in roses
- Specialized
A tube in the body with walls of cartilage, like the trachea or ear canal
- Archaic
A large glass part inside old televisions that shows pictures in color
- Archaic
A glass bulb inside older televisions that makes the screen show color pictures
- Specialized
A device that detects radiation by counting particles in a tube filled with gas
- Archaic
A partly empty glass container that makes glowing rays when electricity passes through it and helped find electrons
- Specialized
A tube from the mouth to the anus where food is digested and waste leaves the body
- Archaic
A glass or metal device that controls electric current in old radios and televisions
- Archaic
A small vacuum tube shaped like an acorn used for high-frequency radio signals
- Specialized
A tube that connects the middle ear to the back of the nose to make ear pressure the same
- Specialized
An instrument that makes standing sound waves visible in a tube to measure sound speed in air or solids
- Specialized
A small tube inside a Geiger counter that gives a signal when radiation passes through
- Specialized
Thin tube that grows out of a spore when it starts to grow, often in fungi
- Specialized
A glass or metal tube filled with gas that makes light when electricity passes through it
- Specialized
A device that measures radiation by detecting tiny charged particles in a gas tube
- Specialized
A tube inserted through the nose into the windpipe to help a person breathe
- Specialized
A tube that detects radiation and gives an electrical signal showing how strong the radiation is
- Archaic
A glass tube with two metal parts that changes alternating current into direct current
- Specialized
A small tube on a plane that measures air pressure to show the speed of the plane
- Specialized
A thin tube from a pollen grain that grows to carry male cells to the ovule for fertilization
- Archaic
An electronic tube in early television cameras that turns light into electrical signals
- Archaic
A device used in old television cameras to change an image into electronic signals
- Archaic
A glass or metal device that controls the flow of electricity in old radios and machines
- Archaic
A glass or metal tube that uses heat to make electricity flow without air
- Australian
A bat that eats fruit and has tube-shaped nostrils that point away from each other
- Specialized
A tube made of cells joined end to end that carries nutrients in flowering plants and some algae
- Specialized
A tube with a narrow middle that measures how fast liquid moves in a pipe by lowering pressure
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Etymology
Tube as a verb (to ride on an inflated tube) comes from the noun tube for an inner rubber ring or long inflatable, so to 'tube' is to float or ride on one for fun.