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Floating down a river on an inner tube, doing absolutely nothing, perfectly.

means The leisure activity of drifting along a river or lazy current while sitting inside an inflated rubber tube.

from From 'tube,' tracing back to the Latin 'tubus' (a pipe). The rubber inner tube itself was a byproduct of the bicycle and automobile age — those discarded tire tubes turned out to float beautifully, and by the mid-20th century sun-baked Americans had repurposed them from tire innards into river recliners, giving the noun a lazy new verb form.

origin
repurposed tractor and truck inner tubes, pre-vinyl
core skill
holding a drink while not capsizing
physics
faster current flips slower tubers at bends
etiquette
tying tubes together is basically a floating party
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