To provide a pipe material for sliding articles capable of stably keeping the slidability without coating the pipe material with a lubricant, with respect to the pipe material for moving articles in a state that the article itself is slid by self-weight on a plurality of pieces of pipe material arranged in parallel.

This pipe material is prepared by uniformly coating a pipe body 2 with a synthetic resin, an outer periphery of its cross sectional face has the shape of a knurl formed by continuously arranging recessed parts 71 and tapered projecting parts 72, and the lubricant 4 are approximately uniformly dispersed in the coating resin 3.