Swim rings

Children with swim rings

A swim ring or swim ring is an annular buoyancy aid in the form of a lifebuoy .

use

Swimming rings are used both as learning aids in swimming lessons, but also serve as pure play equipment. The buoyancy force required to stabilize the swimmer in the water is generated by using a suitable plastic material or by an air chamber.

Another name

In the 1920s and 1930s, the term rubber cavalier was used to denote swimming rings and swimming dolls (cf. the hit " Amalie goes with rubber cavalier " by Siegwart Ehrlich from 1927), as he carries the non-swimmer over the water, so to speak, on his hands .

In Austria and southern Germany, the term is also used colloquially for obesity and trunk obesity .

Web links

Commons : Swimming Hoops  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Swimming tires  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dorothee Nolte: Gummikavalier and Spitzennegligé. In: Der Tagesspiegel, September 28, 2009.