inner tube
noun
: an inflatable usually ring-shaped rubber tube designed for use inside a pneumatic tire
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For 16 years, founder Lynette Fidrych and her team have been recycling bicycle tire inner tubes to make leashes and collars.
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Luke Burbank, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025
Tubing — sliding on an inner tube down a groomed track — has gotten so popular that virtually every Tahoe-area resort has a tubing hill.
—Janet Fullwood, Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2025
Vargas floated groups of migrants across the informal border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on a makeshift raft made from wooden boards lashed to fat inner tubes.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Vargas floated groups of migrants across the informal border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on a makeshift raft made from wooden boards lashed to fat inner tubes.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
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Luke Burbank, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025
Tubing — sliding on an inner tube down a groomed track — has gotten so popular that virtually every Tahoe-area resort has a tubing hill.
—Janet Fullwood, Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2025
Vargas floated groups of migrants across the informal border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on a makeshift raft made from wooden boards lashed to fat inner tubes.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Vargas floated groups of migrants across the informal border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico on a makeshift raft made from wooden boards lashed to fat inner tubes.
—Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 29 Oct. 2025
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“Inner tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inner%20tube. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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