A skill toy is an object or theatrical prop used for dexterity play or an object manipulation performance. A skill toy can be any static or inanimate object with which a person dances, manipulates, spins, tosses, or simply plays. Most skill toys are played alone, although some can be played with multiple people (such as footbag,

juggling Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport. The most recognizable form of juggling is toss juggling. Juggling can be the manipulation of one object o ...

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Common examples of skill toys include: * Balance board (rola bola, rocker, rocker-roller, wobble, sphere-and-ring, spring board, above-water and under-water balance boards) ** Bilibo ** Seesaw **

Teeterboard The teeterboard or Korean plank is an acrobatic apparatus that resembles a playground seesaw. The strongest teeterboards are made of oak (usually 9 feet in length). The board is divided in the middle by a fulcrum made of welded steel. At each end ...

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Neolttwigi or () is a Traditional games of Korea, traditional game of Korea typically played by women and girls on traditional holidays such as Korean New Year, Chuseok, and Dano (Korean festival), Dano. is similar to seesaw, except that participants ...

* Ball-in-a-maze puzzle ** Labyrinth (marble game) ** Perplexus ** Rubik's 360 * Balloon modelling (balloon twisting) * Bamboo-copter * Baton *

Bicycle A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered transport, human-powered or motorized bicycle, motor-assisted, bicycle pedal, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two bicycle wheel, wheels attached to a ...

and related forms ** Balance bicycle *** Kickbike ** Jyrobike **

Quadracycle A quadracycle (also spelled quadricycle) is a four-wheeled human-powered land vehicle. It is also referred to as a quadcycle, pedal car or four-wheeled bicycle amongst other terms. Quadracycles have been in use since 1853 and have grown int ...

Tricycle A tricycle, sometimes abbreviated to trike, is a Human-powered transport, human-powered (or gasoline or electric motor powered or assisted, or gravity powered) Three-wheeler, three-wheeled vehicle. Some tricycles, such as cycle rickshaws (for pa ...

*** Big Wheel **

Unicycle A unicycle is a vehicle that touches the ground with only one wheel. The most common variation has a frame with a saddle, and has a pedal-driven direct-drive. A two speed hub is commercially available for faster unicycling. Unicycling is prac ...

* Bolas ** Alaska yo-yo ** Astrojax ** Meteor Hammer ** Clackers ** Monkey Knuckles ** Poi * Begleri * Blip (console) * Bottle flipping * Bouncing ball ** Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) ** Bouncy ball ** Skyball ** Utility ball * Bullroarer * Buugeng * Cage ball * Cardistry **

Card manipulation Card manipulation, commonly known as card magic, is the branch of magic that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Card manipulation is often used in magical performances, especially in close-up, ...

Card throwing Card throwing is the art of throwing standard playing cards with great accuracy or force. It is performed both as part of stage magic shows and as a competitive physical feat among magicians, with official records existing for longest distance ...

Cat's cradle ''Cat's Cradle'' is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the p ...

Catch (game) Catch, playing catch, playing pass, or having a catch, is one of the most basic children's games, often played between children or between a parent and child, wherein the participants throwing, throw a ball, beanbag, flying disc or similar object ...

and related variants: ** Playing catch with

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

and mitt *** (Velcro) Paddle catch and toss game ** Hot potato (game) ** Keep away ***

Rundown In baseball, a rundown, informally known as a pickle, the Hotbox (baseball), hotbox, or goose chase is a situation that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two bases, also known as no-man's land, and is in jeopardy of being tag out, ...

(pickle) ** Koosh ball ** Nerf ball **

Throwball Throwball is a non-contact ball sport played across a net between two teams of seven players on a rectangular court. Throwball is popular in Asia, especially on the Indian subcontinent, and was first played in India as a women's sport in Chenn ...

* Chakari (or chakri or vaḍā cakara) * Chatter ring (jitter ring) * Claw crane * Coin manipulation, coin spinning, coin flipping, coin shooting/flicking/snapping and poker chip tricks *

Contact juggling Contact manipulation is a form of object manipulation that focuses on the movement of objects such as balls in contact with the body. Although often used in conjunction with "toss juggling", it differs in that it involves the rolling of one or ...

Baoding balls Baoding balls () are metal balls small enough to hold in one hand, used for physical exercise and therapy. They are also known as Chinese exercise balls, Chinese health balls, Chinese meditation balls, and Chinese medicine balls. Baoding balls ar ...

* Cozy Coupe * Cupong (ping pong tricks) * DapoStar * Devil sticks *

Diabolo The diabolo ( ; commonly misspelled ''diablo'') is a juggling or circus skills, circus juggling prop, prop consisting of an axle () and two cone, cups (hourglass/egg timer shaped) or cylinder, discs derived from the Chinese yo-yo. This object i ...

* Dice stacking * Drum sticks manipulation * Etch A Sketch * Fanning ** Silk fan and fan veil * Fingerboard (skateboard) * Flags **

Color guard (flag spinning) Color guards or flag corps are teams of performers who perform choreographed dances and routines with various equipment to enhance and interpret the music of a marching band or Drum and bugle corps (modern), drum and bugle corps show. Color guar ...

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winter guard Winter guard (sometimes spelled "winterguard") is an indoor Color guard (flag spinning), color guard sport and performance art derived from military ceremonies. Modern winter guard is a competitive, performance-based activity which incorporates c ...

** Flag throwing ** Flagging **

Pep flags Pep flags, also known as flaggies, short flags, small flags, or twirl flags, is the performing art of twirling one or two flag(s) as part of a choreographed routine. In the early 21st century, some school flag squads have implemented a third or ...

Flip book A flip book, flipbook, flicker book, or kineograph is a booklet with a series of images that very gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating moti ...

* Gee-haw whammy diddle * Glowsticking * Gravity racer ** Soapbox cars ** Street luge * Gunspinning, fast draw, trick shooting, and fancy gun handling * Hat manipulation * Hocker, as in stool tricking or sporthocker * Hoops **

Chunkey Chunkey (also known as chunky, chenco, tchung-kee or the hoop and stick game) is a game of Native Americans in the United States, Native American origin. It was played by rolling disc-shaped stones across the ground and throwing spears at them i ...

** Fire hooping ** Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics) ** Hoop busker **

Hoop rolling Hoop or Hoops may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Hoops'' (TV series), an American animated series Characters Hoops, a pink cat from Hallmark Media's Hoops & Yoyo Music * Hoops (band), an American indie pop ...

Hula hoop A hula hoop is a toy hoop (rhythmic gymnastics), hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs or neck. It can also be wheeled along the ground like a wheel with careful execution and practice. They have been used by children and adults since ...

Native American Hoop Dance Native American Hoop Dance is one of the individual dances, and it is performed as a show dance in many tribe (Native American), tribes. It features a solo dancer dancing with a dozen or more circle, hoops and using them to form a variety of both ...

** Rings (men's rhythmic gymnastics) * Jacob's ladder (toy) ** Rubik's Magic * Jump ropes ** Chinese jump rope ** Rope (rhythmic gymnastics) ** Skip-It (lemon twist or footsie) ** Skipping rope * Jwibulnori (perhaps also called rat fire), fire can spinning * Keepie Uppie, and various related forms: ** Balloon (game) ** Basse ** Battledore and shuttlecock (or jeu de volant) ** Beach ball ** Bossaball ** Chinlone **

Cuju ''Cuju'' or ''Ts'u-chü'' ( zh, t=蹴鞠, p=cù jū) is an ancient Chinese football game, that resembles a mix of basketball, association football and volleyball. FIFA cites cuju as the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is docume ...

** Footbag ** Footvolley ** Hand sack ** Hanetsuki ** Jianzi ** Jegichagi ** Kamifūsen ** Kemari ** Marngrook **

Matkot Matkot ( lit. "racquets") is a popular List of racket sports, paddle sport in Israel similar to beach tennis, often referred to by Israelis as their national beach sport. History Matkot has been played on the beaches of Israel since the 1920s. ...

** Mesoamerican ball game (pok-ta-pok), ulama (game), and batey (game) ** Peteca ** Picigin ** Sepak takraw **

Sipa Sipa (literally, "kick") is the Philippines' Traditional games in the Philippines, traditional native sport which predates the Spanish rule. The game is related to Sepak Takraw. Similar games include Footbag net, Footvolley, Bossaball and Jia ...

** Tossing the ball (Cree volleyball game) **

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

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Kite A kite is a tethered heavier than air flight, heavier-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create Lift (force), lift and Drag (physics), drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. Kites often have ...

* Knives and

swords A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed ti ...

** Butterfly knife ** Karambit ** Knife throwing ** Urumi * Knuckle roller *

Knucklebones Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragaloi (''singular'': astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks, among many other names, is a game of Fine motor skill, dexterity played with a number of small objects ...

Labyrinth In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth () is an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, the monster eventually killed by the h ...

Lasso A lasso or lazo ( or ), also called reata or la reata in Mexico, and in the United States riata or lariat (from Mexican Spanish lasso for roping cattle), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when ...

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trick roping Floreo de reata or trick roping is a Mexican entertainment or competitive art involving the spinning of a lasso, also known as a lariat or a rope. Besides Mexico and Mexican charrería, it is also associated with Wild West shows or Western arts in ...

Lock picking Lock picking is the practice of unlocking a Lock (security device), lock by manipulating the components of the lock device without the original key. Although lock-picking can be associated with Intention (criminal law), criminal intent, it ...

Marble Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) that have recrystallized under the influence of heat and pressure. It has a crystalline texture, and is ty ...

* Milk caps (pogs) * Paddleballs ** Bolo bat * Paper folding and

papercutting Papercutting or paper cutting is the art of paper designs that has evolved all over the world to adapt to different cultural styles. One traditional distinction most styles share is that the designs are cut from a single sheet of paper as oppo ...

** Chinese paper cutting ** Chinese paper folding ** Flexagon ** Jewish paper cutting **

Kirigami is a variation of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper. In , the paper is cut as well as being folded, resulting in a three-dimensional design that stands away from the page. typically does not use glue. Overview In the United States, t ...

Net (polyhedron) In geometry, a net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of non-overlapping Edge (geometry), edge-joined polygons in the plane (geometry), plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the face (geometry), faces of the polyhedron. Polyhedral net ...

Origami ) is the Japanese art of paper folding. In modern usage, the word "origami" is often used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a ...

*** Action origami ** Pabalat ** Papel picado ** Paper plane ** Paper snowflake * Pen spinning *

Perfection Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence. The terminology, term is used to designate a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts. These have historically been addressed in a number of discre ...

* Pellet drum (rattle drum or

damaru A damaru (, ; Tibetan languages, Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ་ or རྔ་ཆུང) is a small two-headed drum, used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. In Hinduism, the damaru is known as the instrument of the Hindu deity Shiva, associated wi ...

) * Pindaloo * Pogo stick ** Lolo ball ** Space hopper ** Vurtego * Projectiles ** Aerobie (flying ring) *** Chakram **

Baseball (ball) A baseball is the ball used in the sport of baseball. It consists of a rubber or cork center wrapped in yarn and covered with white natural horsehide or cowhide, or a synthetic composite leather. A regulation baseball is in circumference i.e ...

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Cricket ball A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. A cricket ball consists of a cork (material), cork core wound with String (structure), string then a leather cover stitched on, and manufacture is regulated by cricket law at first-clas ...

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Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

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Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

*** Nerf vortex football *** Spiral foam football ** Foxtail sport (or foxtail toy or foxtail ball) ** Flying gyroscope (flying cylinder) ** Frisbee **

Golf ball A golf ball is a ball designed to be used in golf. Under the rules of golf, a golf ball has a mass no more than , has a diameter not less than , and performs within specified velocity, distance, and symmetry limits. Like golf clubs, golf bal ...

** Glider *** Non-powered airplane gliders (made of balsa wood, foam, paper, or plastic, and hand-thrown, slingshot driven, or wind-up rubber band propeller driven) **

Shuriken A is a Japanese concealed weapon used by samurai or ninja or in martial arts as a hidden dagger or '' metsubushi'' to distract or misdirect. History The origins of the ''bo-shuriken'' in Japan are still unclear, despite continuing researc ...

Throwing stick The throwing stick or throwing club is a wooden rod with either a pointed tip or a spearhead attached to one end, intended for use as a weapon. A throwing stick can be either straight or roughly boomerang-shaped, and is much shorter than the jav ...

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Boomerang A boomerang () is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight, designed to return to the thrower. The origin of the word is from Australian Aborigin ...

*** Valari * Punching bag and dummy ** Roly-poly toy ** Mook jong ** Speed bag *

Puppet A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. Puppetry is an ancient form of theatre which dates back to the 5th century BC in anci ...

Hand puppet A hand puppet is a type of puppet that is controlled by the hands that occupies the interior of the puppet.Sinclair, A, ''The Puppetry Handbook'', p.15 A glove puppet is a variation of hand puppets. Rod puppets require one of the puppeteer's han ...

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Bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. Three kinds of performers take part in a performance: the or (puppeteers), the (chanters) ...

*** Finger puppet *** Glove puppet *** Human-arm puppet *** Rod puppet *** Sock puppet ** Jumping jack (toy) **

Marionette A marionette ( ; ) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations. A marionette's puppeteer is called a marionettist. Marionettes are operated with the puppeteer hidden or revealed to an audience by ...

*** British marionettes *** Buz-baz (Afghan marionettes) *** Czech marionettes *** German marionettes *** Russian puppetry *** Opera dei Pupi (Sicilian marionettes) *** Yoke thé (Burmese marionettes) **

Shadow play Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim (material), ...

** Water puppetry * Quoits and related games ** Cup-and-ball and ring-and-pin *** Penobscot birch bark triangle and ball game *** Kendama ** Deck tennis and tennikoit ** Game of graces ** Game of ring toss ** Ring toss *** Muckers ** Ringing the bull and Bimini ring game ** Waterful ring toss * RC helicopters, planes, cars, boats * Ribbons ** Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics) ** Sangmo and Yoldubal ** Swing Wing (toy) *

Rocking horse __NOTOC__ A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair. There are two sorts, the one where the horse part sits rigidly attached to a pair of curved rockers that are in contact wit ...

** Spring rider * Rope dart and dragon beard hook * Scoop ball, jai alai (toy version) which uses a wiffle ball * Shoot the moon (tabletop game) *

Simon (game) ''Simon'' is an electronic game of short-term memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of ton ...

Bop It ''Bop It'', stylized as ''bop it!'' since 2008, is a line of audio game toys. By following a series of commands issued through voice recordings produced by a speaker by the toy, which has multiple inputs including pressable buttons, pull hand ...

Skateboarding Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport that involves riding and Skateboarding trick, performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a method of tr ...

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Kick scooter A kick scooter (also referred to as a push-scooter or scooter) is a Human-powered land vehicle, human-powered street vehicle with a mwod:handlebar#:~:text=: a straight or bent bar,usually used in plural, handlebar, deck, and wheels propelled by ...

*** Eccentric-hub scooter *** Trikke (wiggle scooter) **** PlasmaCar (wiggle car, fun car) **** Roller racer (flying turtle) **

Roller skates Roller skates are boots with wheels mounted to the bottom, allowing the user to travel on hard surfaces similarly to an ice skater on ice. The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with a line of wheels replac ...

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Inline skates Inline skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing one to move in an ice skate-like fashion. Inline skates are technically a type of roller skates, roller skate, but most people associate the term rolle ...

*** Roller shoe (heelys) * Slinky ** Toroflux (aka flow ring) * Speed typing contest * Speedcubing * Stacking and unstacking, or adding and removing games ** Barrel of Monkeys **

Blockhead! Blockhead! is a simple tabletop game suitable for children four years of age or older. It was invented in 1952 by G.W. "Jerry" D'Arcey and developed by G.W. and Alice D'Arcey in San Jose, California. Originally consisting of 20 brightly colored ...

** Buckaroo! ** Domino toppling ** Don't Break the Ice ** House of cards (card stacking) **

Jenga ''Jenga'' is a Game of skill, game of physical skill created by British board game designer and author Leslie Scott (game designer), Leslie Scott and marketed by Hasbro. The name comes from the Swahili language, Swahili word "" which means 'to bu ...

** Wire loop game ***

Operation (game) ''Operation'' is a battery-operated game of physical skill that tests players' Eye–hand coordination, hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. The game's prototype was invented in 1964 by University of Illinois industrial-design student Joh ...

Pick-up sticks Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle of sticks, between 8 and 20 centimeters long, is dropped as a loose bunch onto a table t ...

*** Bierki *** Jack straws *** Jonchets *** Mikado (game) ***

Pick-up sticks (Haida) Haida pick-up sticks exist in two sorts. There were non-decorated thin playing sticks (not collected) and the other decorated, containing three sets of sticks. These were named after animals or birds only known by the owner or his family, accordin ...

** Speed stacking * Staff (various staffs of various lengths from various martial arts) ** Arnis stick twirling (aka Escrima or Kali, stick is held at one end and not in the middle as in baton twirling) ** Fei cha (Flying fork trident) ** Stick discipline (men's rhythmic gymnastics) **

Three-section staff The three-section staff, three-part staff, triple staff, originally sanjiegun () or sansetsukon (), three-section whip, originally sanjiebian (), is a Chinese flail weapon that consists of three wooden or metal staves connected by metal rings o ...

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Two section staff The two-section staff or changxiaobang () is a versatile weapon which originated in China from the ancient Shaolin temple and Shaolin martial arts. It is a flail-type weapon which consists of a long staff with a shorter rod attached by a chain, ...

* Sticky hand toy * Stilts ** Coconut-shell walking ** Jumping stilts *

Stone skipping Stone skipping and stone skimming are the arts of throwing a flat Rock (geology), stone across water in such a way (usually Sidearm (baseball), sidearm) that it bounces off the surface. "Skipping" counts the number of bounces; "skimming" measur ...

** Waboba * Strategy games requiring some physical skill, coordination, and dexterity ** Air hockey *** Klask **

Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

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Aunt Sally Aunt Sally is a traditional England, English game usually played in Pub game, pub gardens and fairgrounds, in which players throw sticks or battens at a ball, known as a 'dolly', balanced on top of a stick; traditionally, a model of an old woma ...

**** Coconut shy *** Axe throwing *** Cornhole ***

Darts Darts is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small projectile point, sharp-pointed projectile, projectiles known as dart (missile), darts at a round shooting target, target known as a #Dartboard, dartboard. Point ...

and spears ****Balloon and dart **** Khuru **** Lawn darts *** Disc golf ***

Dunk tank A dunk tank, also known as a dunking booth or dunking machine, is a common feature at Canadian and American fairs, fundraisers, and celebrations. It involves at least two participants, one of whom sits on a collapsible bench above a human-sized ...

*** Horseshoes *** Knife throwing *** Ladder toss *** Penny in the hole (pitch penny) **** Toad in the hole ***** Igel jokoa (frog game) **** Quarters (game) **** Washer pitching *** Pitch-pot (touhu) *** Tejo *** Varpa **** Digor **

Bowling Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...

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Candlepin bowling Candlepin bowling is a variation of bowling that is played primarily in the Canadian Maritimes, Canadian Maritime provinces and the New England region of the United States. It is played with a handheld-sized bowling ball, ball and tall, narrow bo ...

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Duckpin bowling Duckpin bowling is a variation of the sport of bowling. Duckpin balls are in diameter, weigh between each, and lack finger holes. They are thus significantly smaller than those used in ten-pin bowling but are slightly larger and heavier than th ...

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Boules Boules (, ), or ''jeu de boules'', is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the ''jack''. 'Boules' its ...

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Bocce (, or , ), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci, or boccie, is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls and French , with a common ancestry from anc ...

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Boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes w ...

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Bocce volo ("flying boules"), or ("Lyonnais boules"), is a boules-type game. In ', the balls are thrown or rolled overhand (palm down) or underhand (palm up) and are metal. In non-standard ', the wooden or plastic balls are tossed underhand (palm up) and ...

Jeu provençal ' ('game of Provence'; also known as ', "boules of Lyon") is a French form of boules. In Italy, the sport ', which is played with bronze balls, follows a similar set of rules.

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Bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

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Pétanque Pétanque (, ; ; ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with Raffa (boules), raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, Bowls, lawn bowls, and Crown green bowls, crown green bowling). In these sports, players or teams play thei ...

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Skee-Ball Skee-Ball is an arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is played by rolling a ball up an inclined lane and over a "ball-hop" hump (resembling a ski jump) that jumps the ball into bullseye rings. The object of the game is to col ...

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Subbuteo Subbuteo ( ) is a tabletop football game in which players simulate association football by flicking miniature players with their fingers. The name is derived from the Neo-Latin scientific name '' Falco subbuteo'' (a bird of prey commonly known a ...

Croquet Croquet ( or ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called Wicket, "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. Variations In all forms of croquet, in ...

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Cue sports Cue sports are a wide variety of Game of skill, games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a Baize, cloth-covered billiards table, table bounded by elastic bumpers known a ...

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Four-ball billiards Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a Billiard table#Carom billiards tables, pocketless table with four billiard balls, usual ...

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Three-cushion billiards Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to the off both while contacting the at least three times before contacting the second object ball. A point is scored for each s ...

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Pool (cue sports) Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six Pocket (billiards), pockets along the , into which Billiard ball, balls are shot. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". T ...

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Bank pool Bank pool is a pool game that has as its most fundamental requirement that all scoring shots in the game must be made by a called ball off a and into a called pocket. While the game has multiple variations, the predominant version through much ...

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Eight-ball Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, bigs and smalls, big ones and little ones, or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of Pool (cue sports), pool played on a billiard tabl ...

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Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle o ...

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One-pocket One-pocket is a pool game. Only one pocket for each player is used in this game, unlike other games played on a pool table where any can be used to score . The object of the game is to score points. A point is made when a player pockets any obj ...

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Straight pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a Cue sports, cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many s as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of Pool (cue sports), pool play ...

(14.1 continuous or 14.1 rack) ***** Ten-ball **** Russian pyramid ****

Snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sport played on a rectangular Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets: one at each corner and ...

** Disk-flicking games *** Carrom *** Chapayev (game) *** Crokinole *** Novuss *** Penny football *** Pichenotte *** Pitchnut ** Electric Football **

Marble (toy) A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. These toys can be used for a variety of games called marbles, as well being placed in Rolling ball sculpture, marble runs or races, or created as a form ...

*** Cherokee marbles **

Miniature golf Miniature golf (also known as minigolf, putt-putt, crazy golf, and by #Nomenclature, several other names) is an offshoot of the sport of golf focusing solely on the putting aspect of its parent game. The aim of the game is to score the lowest ...

*** Sholf ** Paper football ** Penny football **

Pinball Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails call ...

** Pitching pennies ** Skittles *** Bunnock *** Finnish skittles *** Fowling ***

Gorodki ''Gorodki'' (; ; ) is a Russian folk sport. Similar in concept to bowling and also somewhat to Horseshoes (game), horseshoes, the aim of the game is to knock out groups of skittles (sport), skittles arranged in various patterns by throwing a bat a ...

*** Kubb *** Mölkky ** Table cricket **

Table football Table football, known as foosball or table soccer in North America, is a tabletop game loosely based on association football. Its objective is to move the ball into the opponent's Scoring in association football, goal by manipulating rods whic ...

(Foosball) ***

Tabletop football Tabletop football is a class of tabletop game simulating mainly association football, but also either of the codes of rugby, or some other form of football such as American football or Australian rules football. The games employ miniature figu ...

*** Sports table football **

Table hockey games A table hockey game, also called rod hockey game, stick hockey, bubble hockey, and board hockey, is a game for two players, derived from ice hockey. The game consists of a representation of a hockey rink; the players score goals by hitting a smal ...

*** ITHF table hockey ** Table shuffleboard *** Bankboard *** Bonus Shuffle **

Table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

(Ping pong) ***

Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...

*** Shuffleboard (Deck shuffleboard) ***

Shove ha'penny Shove ha'penny (or shove halfpenny) pronounced /ʃʌv ˈheɪpəni/ (with emphasis on 'shove') also known in ancestral form as shoffe-grote ['shove- groat' in Modern English], slype groat ['slip groat'], and slide-thrift, is a pu ...

*** Sjoelen **

Tiddlywinks Tiddlywinks is a game played on a flat felt mat with sets of small discs called winks, a pot, which is the target, and a collection of squidgers, which are also discs. Players use a squidger (nowadays made of plastic) to shoot a wink into fl ...

*** Ants in the Pants * String climbers ** Friction and slip *** Mountain climber (single string) *** Climbing bear (double string) ** Double pulley or spool *** Climbing tin monkey * Tethered ball games (tethered to a pole or anchor) ** Jokari ** Speed-ball ** Tetherball ** Totem tennis (swingball) * Tibetan prayer wheel *

Trampoline A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched between a steel frame often using many coiled spring (device), springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes. The fabric that use ...

** Nalukataq (Eskimo blanket toss) * Trick shot (billiards) *

Top Top most commonly refers to: * Top, a basic term of orientation, distinguished from bottom, front, back, and sides * Spinning top, a ubiquitous traditional toy * Top (clothing), clothing designed to be worn over the torso * Mountain top, a moun ...

s and other spinners ** Aeolian top ***

Pinwheel (toy) A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. History A similar toy had developed independently in Po ...

** Euler's disk **

Gyroscope A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος ''gŷros'', "round" and σκοπέω ''skopéō'', "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining Orientation (geometry), orientation and angular velocity. It is a spinning wheel or disc in ...

** Hurricane balls **

Rattleback A rattleback is a semi-ellipsoidal top which will rotate on its axis in a preferred direction. If spun in the opposite direction, it becomes unstable, "rattles" to a stop and reverses its spin to the preferred direction. For most rattlebacks the ...

Tippe top A tippe top is a kind of Spinning top, top that when spun, will spontaneously invert itself to spin on its narrow stem. It was invented by a German nurse, Helene Sperl in 1898. Description A tippe top usually has a body shaped like a truncated ...

*** Spinning hard-boiled egg (Related examples: PhiTOP, Tesla's Egg of Columbus) ** Turkish Spinning Top or Turkish Yo-yo * Torches * True balance * Whee-lo ** Magnetic Gyro Wheel ** Radiaculum ** Spiraculum *

Whirligig A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. It can also be a Pinwheel (toy), pinwheel, Top (toy), spinning top, buzzer, comic weathervane, gee-haw, spinner, whirlygig, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirl ...

(Buzzer) ** Op Yop ** Wooden toy acrobat *

Whipcracking Whipcracking is the act of producing a cracking sound through the use of a whip. Used during livestock driving and horse riding, it has also become an art. A rhythmic whipcracking belongs to the traditional culture among various Germanic peoples ...

* Yo-yos ** Punch balloon ** Yo-yo water ball ** Yo Stick *

Zippo A Zippo lighter is a reusable metal lighter produced by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. Thousands of different styles and designs have been made since their introduction in 1933, incl ...

* Zorb ** Water ball

Juggling props

''Juggling prop'', most often a juggling ball or beanbag, may also refer to: *

Aerial hoop The aerial hoop (also known as the lyra, aerial ring or cerceau/cerceaux) is a circular steel apparatus (resembling a hula hoop) suspended from the ceiling, on which contemporary circus, circus artists may perform aerial acrobatics. It can be us ...

* Aerial silk * Chair acrobatics * Cigar box *

* Cyr wheel * Flair bartending ** Teh tarik (Pulled Tea) *

Juggling club Juggling clubs are a object manipulation, prop used by Toss juggling, jugglers. Juggling clubs are often simply called clubs by jugglers and sometimes are referred to as pins or batons by non-jugglers. Clubs are one of the three most popular ...

Indian club Indian clubs, known in Iran as meels (), are a type of exercise equipment used to present resistance in movement to develop strength and mobility. They consist of juggling-club shaped wooden clubs of varying sizes and weights, which are swung in ...

Clubs (rhythmic gymnastics) Rhythmic gymnastics apparatus, Clubs The clubs are an apparatus used in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. They are one of the five apparatuses utilized in this discipline, alongside the Ball (rhythmic gymnastics), ball, Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics ...

* Juggling ring * Bouncing ball * Knife juggling * Logrolling (sport) * Risley (circus act) * Rolling globe *

Torch A torch is a stick with combustible material at one end which can be used as a light source or to set something on fire. Torches have been used throughout history and are still used in processions, symbolic and religious events, and in juggl ...

* Sign Twirling * ball juggling * Plate spinning * Stilt walking * Wheel gymnastics * Staff/Staves (contact, thrown or spun) * Poi (2 or 3, contact, thrown or spun) * Rope Dart *Sword Spinning (contact or traditional) * Kendama (increasingly associated with juggling culture) * Yo-yo * Diablo (Chinese Yo-yo) * Fire Fans * Shaker cups

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