Other forms: flumes
A flume is an enclosed water slide. Ride the flume, a log flume, the flume at the pool.
The water does two jobs: it carries you and it stops the friction, which is why a dry flume is unusable and slightly dangerous. The word originally meant a river and then an artificial channel for carrying water or logs down a hillside.
1nounflumeAn enclosed water slide.
“The kids spent all afternoon racing down the flume at the water park.”
flume is a slide.
Old French flum comes from Latin flumen, a river, from fluere, to flow.
Middle English
flum
English, today
flume
Built from
From Middle English flum. From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA