flotation device
Keeps you afloat
A flotation device is anything designed to keep a person or object buoyant in water.
Life jackets, pool noodles, and inflatable rafts are all flotation devices.
Airlines instruct passengers that your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.
The term often appears in safety contexts where precision matters more than naturalness.
- life jacketWearable flotation device
- life preserverBuoyant rescue device
- buoyTethered nautical signal
- raftFlat water conveyance
- inflatableExpandable by air
swimming · pool · deep end · rescue · lifeguard · vest · safety equipment · orange · whistle · drowning · stay afloat · swim lessons · water wings · arm floaties · noodle · survival · coast guard · man overboard
- airline equipmentairplane, jet, aircraft, seat, tray table
- beach gearshovel, beach umbrella, beach ball, beach chair, beach towel
- beach safetylifeguard, rip current, warning flag, red flag, no swimming
- beach thingsbeach, sand, waves, towel, sunscreen
- boat equipmentanchor, rope, life jacket, life vest, oars
- lifeguardinglifeguard, lifeguard stand, rescue tube, rescue buoy, CPR