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pool noodle
noun
A long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly colored, used as a toy in swimming pools.
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In a Facebook post headlined "POOL NOODLE ALERT!!!," the Buckeye Fire Department wrote that "the snake did not attack, but was concerned about the pool noodles"—because, apparently, a brood of baby rattlesnakes was living inside of them.
We grabbed towels, changed and got in, joining a woman exercising with a pool noodle (not a euphemism).
Young instructed me to hold on to a float (think pool noodle but more substantial) and then towed me behind her as she powered across the spring.
A long foam pool noodle had somehow found its way into the back of the car, with the suitcases, and was obstructing the rear window.
(The band was photographed, sopping wet, at the Metropolitan Recreation Center, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; it is still the only interview I've ever done while hugging a pool noodle).
Milam, who was honored by Forbes for her work in nested-tetrahedron tensegrity robots, built a new spacesuit helmet out of duct tape, a pool noodle, and Bubble Wrap.
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They trotted in formation, charged at the audience, marched calmly in the face of trainers shouting and waving pool noodles.
There's also Kill the Kraken, which utilizes pool noodles, socks, and hula hoops; Stepball, which combines handball and rock-paper-scissors; and Hoot Pootooter, which involves throwing and catching vegetables.
The lounge seats, made from rolled-up up pool noodles of the kind found in children's swimming pools, are designed by the architect Jeffrey Inaba and are arranged to form a giant X, best seen from a spaceship perspective.
Her monumental works have recently appeared on the High Line (fibre-wrapped tubes like giant pool noodles) and in the gardens of Versailles (where she cocooned a statue of Proserpine in blue, purple, and orange ribbons).
It features sand and water, Playground Associates to oversee the action, and more than 350 loose parts, including wheelbarrows, pool noodles and weather- and germ-resistant foam blocks (above, in Brooklyn).
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