A player could create this air column by using a few different methods.

No matter their size, ceiling fans produce a column of air as they turn.

They're held an inch or so above the ground by columns of air pouring out.

There's a column of warm air rising off that lake over there.

"Setting a column of air in motion is what one pipe does," he said.

There is relative mouthpiece pressure to the given air column.

As you breathe inward, the ball within the air column moves up.

He was enveloped in a nearly silent column of warm air.

A flexible plastic tube is connected to a large and small air column.

This vertical air column then becomes the basic structure for the tornado.