List of skill toys facts for kids
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, and jump rope).
Examples
A performer using devil sticks
Common examples of skill toys include:
- Bamboo-copter
- Balance board (Rola bola, Rocker, Rocker-roller, Wobble, Sphere-and-ring, Spring board, Above Water and Under Water balance boards))
- Bilibo
- Seesaw
- Simply Fit Board
- Teeterboard
- Baton
- Bicycle and related forms
- Balance bicycle
- Jyrobike
- Quadracycle
- Tricycle
- Unicycle
- Bolas
- Alaska yo-yo
- Astrojax
- Clackers
- Meteor
- Monkey Knuckles
- Poi
- Begleri
- Bottle flipping
- Bouncing ball
- Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
- Bouncy ball
- Skyball
- Bullroarer
- Buugeng
- Cage ball
- Cardistry
- Card manipulation
- Card throwing
- Cat's cradle
- Catch (game) and related variants:
- Playing catch with baseball and mitt
- Hot potato (game)
- Keep away
- Throwball
- Chakari (or Chakri or Vaḍā cakara or Big wheel)
- Chatter ring (Jitter ring)
- Coin manipulation, Coin spinning, coin flipping, coin shooting/flicking/snapping and Poker chip tricks
- Contact Juggling
- Devil sticks
- Diabolo
- Dice stacking
- Drum sticks manipulation
- Fanning
- Silk fan and Fan veil
- Fingerboard (skateboard)
- Flags
- Color guard (flag spinning) and Winter guard
- Flag throwing
- Flagging
- Pep flags
- Flip book
- Glowsticking
- Gunspinning, Fast Draw, Trick Shooting, and Fancy Gun Handling
- Halo ring and chain.
- Hat manipulation
- Hocker, as in Stool tricking or Sporthocker
- Hoops
- Fire hooping
- Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics)
- Hoop busker
- Hoop rolling
- Hula hoop
- Native American Hoop Dance
- Jacob's ladder (toy)
- 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
- Footbag
- Footvolley
- Hand sack
- Hanetsuki
- Jianzi
- Jegichagi
- Kai (a cooperative game from the Torres Strait)
- Kamifūsen
- Kemari
- Mesoamerican ball game (Pok-ta-pok), Ulama (game), and Batey (game)
- Peteca
- Picigin
- Sepak takraw
- Sipa
- Tossing the Ball (Cree volleyball game)
- Volleyball
- Woggabaliri
- Kite
- Knives and Swords
- Balisong
- Karambit
- Knife throwing
- Urumi
- Knucklebones
- Labyrinth
- Lasso for Trick roping
- Mandala toy (a.k.a. Wire Mandala toy)
- Marble
- Paddleballs
- Paper yo-yo
- Pen spinning
- Pellet drum (Rattle drum or Damaru)
- Pili
- Pogo stick
- Jumping stilts
- Lolo ball
- Space hopper
- Vurtego
- Projectiles
- Aerobie (Flying ring)
- Chakram
- Baseball (ball)
- Football
- Nerf Vortex football
- Spiral foam football
- Foxtail sport (or Foxtail toy or Foxtail ball)
- Flying gyroscope (Flying cylinder)
- Frisbee
- Golf ball
- Paper plane
- Non-powered airplane gliders (made of foam, paper, cardboard, or plastic, and hand-thrown, slingshot driven, or wind-up rubber band propeller driven)
- Shuriken
- Throwing stick
- Boomerang
- Valari
- Aerobie (Flying ring)
- Punching bag and dummy
- Inflated punching dummy
- Mook jong
- Speed bag
- Quoits and related games
- Cup-and-ball and Ring and pin
- Deck tennis and Tennikoit
- Game of graces
- Game of Ring Toss
- Ringing the bull and Bimini Ring Game
- Ribbons
- Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics)
- Sangmo and Yoldubal
- Swing Wing (toy)
- Rocking horse
- Spring rider
- Rope dart and Dragon beard hook
- Scoop ball, Jai alai (toy version) which uses a wiffle ball
- Skateboarding and related forms
- Kick scooter
- Eccentric-hub scooter
- Trikke (Wiggle scooter)
- Roller skates
- Inline skates
- Roller shoe (Heelys)
- Aircoasters
- Kick scooter
- Slinky
- Toroflux (aka Flow ring)
- Speed typing contest
- Speedcubing
- Speed stacking
- Staff (various staffs of various lengths from various martial arts)
- Three-section staff
- Two section staff
- Stone skipping
- Strategy games requiring some physical skill, coordination, and dexterity
- Air hockey
- Klask
- Boules
- Button football
- Croquet
- Roque
- Woodball
- Cue sports
- Carom billiards (Carambole billiards)
- Artistic billiards
- Balkline
- Cushion caroms (One-cushion billiards or Cushion carom billiards or Indirect game)
- Five-pin billiards (Five-pins or 5-pins)
- Goriziana (Nine-pin billiards or Nine-pins or 9-pins)
- Four-ball billiards (Four-ball carom or Four-ball or 4-ball or Fourball)
- Straight rail (Straight billiards or Three-ball billiards or Free game)
- Three-cushion billiards(Three-cushion carom)
- Pocket billiards
- Bar billiards
- Kaisa (cue sport) (Karoliina)
- Pool (cue sports)
- Bank pool
- Eight-ball (8-ball or Eightball)
- Nine-ball (9-ball)
- One-pocket (One pocket or 1-pocket)
- Straight pool (14.1 continuous or 14.1 rack)
- Ten-ball
- Russian pyramid
- Snooker
- Carom billiards (Carambole billiards)
- Disk-flicking games
- Carrom
- Chapayev (game)
- Crokinole
- Novuss
- Penny football
- Pichenotte
- Pitchnut
- Electric Football
- Marble (toy)
- Miniature golf
- Sholf
- Paper football
- Penny football
- Pinball
- Table football (Foosball)
- Tabletop football
- Sports table football
- Table hockey games
- ITHF table hockey
- Table shuffleboard
- Bankboard
- Bonus Shuffle
- Curling
- Shuffleboard (Deck shuffleboard)
- Shove ha'penny
- Sjoelen
- Tiddlywinks
- Air hockey
- Tibetan prayer wheel
- Trick shot (billiards)
- Tops and other spinners
- Euler's disk
- Gyroscope
- Hurricane balls
- Rattleback
- Tippe top
- Torches
- Tri-Thology
- Whee-lo
- Radiaculum
- Spiraculum
- Whirligig (Buzzer)
- Op Yop
- Whipcracking
- Yo-yos
- Punch balloon
- Yo-yo water ball
- Zippo
- Zorb
Juggling props
Juggling prop, most often a juggling ball or beanbag, may also refer to:
- Aerial hoop
- Aerial silk
- Chair acrobatics
- Cigar box
- Contact juggling
- Cyr wheel
- Flair bartending
- Teh tarik (Pulled Tea)
- Juggling club
- Juggling ring
- Bouncing ball
- Knife juggling
- Logrolling
- Risley (circus act)
- Rolling globe
- Torch
- 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
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