Bubble
Appearance
Bubble or Bubbles may refer to:
Physical bubbles
- Liquid bubble, globule of one substance encased in another, usually air in a liquid
- Soap bubble, a bubble formed by soapy water (a thin film of liquid)
- Antibubble, a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas
Arts and literature
- Bubbles (painting), a 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais, also used to market Pears soap
- Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of mystery novels
- Speech balloon or speech bubble, a graphic convention used primarily in comics and cartoons
Astronomy
- Local Bubble, the cavity which contains the Solar System
- Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), an emission nebula in Barnard's Galaxy
- NGC 7635 (also known as the Bubble Nebula), an emission nebula in the Milky Way galaxy
- Stellar-wind bubble, a large cavity in the interstellar medium created by a star's energy
- Superbubble, a large structure created by multiple gases
Economics
- Economic bubble, a situation where market prices are unsustainable
- Dot-com bubble, a specific economic bubble in the 1990s
- Real Estate/Housing bubble, economic bubble involving unsustainably valued property
- Stock market bubble, an economic bubble involving over-valued stock
- Tulip bubble, an economic bubble in the 1630s and a metaphor for other economic bubbles
Film
- Bubbles (film), a 1930 short film featuring a pre-stardom Judy Garland
- Bubble (film), a 2006 improvised thriller directed by Stephen Soderbergh
- The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
- The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli drama about a gay romance
- Bubbles, a character in the 2003 film Finding Nemo
Music
- Bubbles (band), Swedish group
- "Bubble" (Fluke song), a 1994 song on Fluke's album Oto
- "Bubbles" (song), a song on Biffy Clyro's 2009 album Only Revolutions
- "Bubbles", a song on System of a Down's 2002 album Steal This Album!
- Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of The Whitest Boy Alive
Television
- The Bubble (game show), a British game show hosted by David Mitchell
- Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
- Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
- Bubbles , a fictional superhero
- Bubbles (Bubbles Utonium), a character in The Powerpuff Girls
- Bubbles (Miyako Gotokuji), a character in Powerpuff Girls Z
- Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys)
- Bubbles (The Wire), a character from the HBO series The Wire
- Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
- Bubbles DeVere, a character in the TV series Little Britain
- Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp), an anthropomorphic fish from The Adventures of Little Carp
- Bubbles, a contestant on Real Chance of Love season 1 and Charm School 3
- The Dirty Bubble, one of Mermaid Man's enemies in SpongeBob SquarePants
Video games
- Bubble Ghost, a French 1987 video game
- Bubbles (video game), a 1982 arcade video game by Williams Electronics
- The main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
- Bubble, an enemy in The Legend of Zelda series
People, characters and animals
- Bubble Boy (disambiguation), (or 'boy in the bubble'), a person who must live in a sterile environment for medical reasons
- Bubble Eye, a variety of goldfish
- Bubbles (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee who lived with Michael Jackson
- Bubbles, a muppet character that appeared in The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth and The Muppets.
- Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (1933–1992), English socialite and actress
- William Milbourne James (1881–1974), child model for the painting and soap advertisement Bubbles
- Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer
Other
- Bubble (computing), a delay in pipeline
- Champagne (wine), sparkling wine or Champagne, colloquially known as bubbles
- Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
- Bubble Act, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all joint-stock companies to have a Royal Charter
- Bubble and squeak, a traditional English vegetable dish; usually based on mashed potatoes and "left over" vegetables
- Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
- Bubble wrap, a packaging material
- Hi-Riser (automobile), a sedan customized by increasing the ground clearance and adding large-diameter wheels
- Carbonation, the process of adding bubbles to soft drinks
- Westminster Bubble, isolation among United Kingdom government employees
- Bubble, the nickname for the helmet logo of the Detroit Lions
- Bubble, a symbol used in logic gate diagrams
- Bubble play, a term used in poker tournaments
- Bubble, in selecting the field, for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
- Bubble, a interpersonal space
- Slang for Mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant