--- title: See How the University of Louisville Swim Team Stayed Entertained During a Flight Delay description: And try not to laugh canonical: https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-11T17:06:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:56.578Z og:title: See How the University of Louisville Swim Team Stayed Entertained During a Flight Delay og:description: And try not to laugh along og:url: https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See How the University of Louisville Swim Team Stayed Entertained During a Flight Delay twitter:description: And try not to laugh along twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See How the University of Louisville Swim Team Stayed Entertained During a Flight Delay ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 11, 2015 5:06 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 11, 2015 5:06 PM UTC As the holiday travel season rapidly approaches—and travelers face the possibility of spending hours trapped at the airport—the University of Louisville’s swim and dive team has a few tips for entertaining yourself in the wake of flight delays. All you need is a mostly empty moving walkway and a group of teens who have lost all sense of decorum during a seven-hour delay at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. (No judgment, it’s happened to everyone who has been trapped at an airport for hours on end.) The result is an amusing video straight out of the [OK Go playbook](http://time.com/2889557/ok-go-music-video-the-writings-on-the-wall/), featuring the swim team working together to keep themselves entertained—and taking the world at large along for the ride. The video also serves as a cautionary tale to holiday travelers—be sure to pack a book, a back-up book, and a deck of cards along with your phone because you never know when a flight delay will leave you stranded with time to kill and only a moving walkway to entertain you. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/"},"headline":"See How the University of Louisville Swim Team Stayed Entertained During a Flight Delay","datePublished":"2015-11-11T17:06:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:56.578Z","description":"And try not to laugh along","url":"https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Travel","Airports","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/","name":"See How the University of Louisville Swim Team Stayed Entertained During a Flight Delay"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4108283/flight-delay-louisville-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```