scuba

Acronym of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

• SCUBA

• Rhymes: -uːbə

scuba (plural scubas)

1. (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.

• scuba diver
• scuba diving
• scuba set

• SCBA

scuba (third-person singular simple present scubas, present participle scubaing, simple past and past participle scubaed)

1. (rare) To perform scuba diving.

• ubacs