Tubular

Tubular may refer to:

• the form of a cylinder or tube
• Tubular, a television-related entertainment blog on the Houston Chronicle website
• Tubular, a level in the video game Super Mario World
• Tubular, surf culture slang for cool or awesome, derived from catching a wave and getting in the tube
• Tubulars (people), a former ethnic group in Russia

The adjective is often applied to items which are somewhat tubular in shape:

• Tubular bell, musical instruments (also known as chimes) in the percussion family
• Tubular bridge, a bridge built as a rigid box girder section, with the traffic carried within the section
• Tubular chassis or superleggera, a type of automobile construction technique used only in expensive sports cars
• Tubular Gallery, a large diameter, round, tubular steel structure used to enclose a troughed conveyor belt
• Tubular lock pick, a specialized lockpicking tool used for opening a tubular pin locking cylinder
• Tubular NDT, a nondestructive method of testing industrial products for hidden defects
• Tubular neighborhood, a mathematical concept
• Tubular-pneumatic action, a playing action for pipe organs, in which key and stop activity is transmitted from the console to the windchest via pneumatic impulses traveling through tubes
• Tubular tyres, bicycle tires (tyres) which are glued-on to their rims

The adjective is often applied to parts of the body which resemble or are composed of tube-like members:

• Tubular gland
• parts of the kidney:
  • distal convoluted tubule
  • uriniferous tubule
  • tubular fluid, the fluid in the tubules of the kidney