Water-tubing

Tubing on water generally consists of two forms: towed and free-floating, also known as river tubing. There is also water skiing. According to Time Magazine, tubing was purportedly invented on the Black River in Missouri by Jan & Harriet Wright of Poplar Bluff, MO sometime in the middle of the 20th century,^[1] but examples of the practice were published as early as 1916,^[2] when the popularization of the automobile meant a large supply of rubber inner tubes was available to the general public.

Towed tubing usually takes place on a large body of water such as a lake or river. One or more tube riders (often called “tubers”) tether their tubes to a powered watercraft such as a motor boat or a personal watercraft. The riders are then towed through the water by the watercraft.