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
- Teeterboard
- Neolttwigi
- Ball-in-a-maze puzzle
- Labyrinth (marble game)
- Perplexus
- Rubik's 360
- Balloon modelling (balloon twisting)
- Baton
- Bicycle and related forms
- Balance bicycle
- Kickbike
- Jyrobike
- Quadracycle
- Tricycle
- Big Wheel
- Unicycle
- Balance bicycle
- Bolas
- Begleri
- Blip (console)
- Bottle flipping
- Bouncing ball
- Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
- Bouncy ball
- Skyball
- Utility ball
- Bullroarer
- Buugeng
- Cage ball
- Cardistry
- Card manipulation
- Card throwing
- Cat's cradle
- Catch (game) and related variants:
- Playing catch with baseball and mitt
- (Velcro) Paddle catch and toss game
- Hot potato (game)
- Keep away
- Rundown (pickle)
- Koosh ball
- Nerf ball
- Throwball
- Playing catch with baseball and mitt
- 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
- Cozy Coupe
- Cupong (ping pong tricks)
- DapoStar
- Devil sticks
- Diabolo
- Dice stacking
- Drum sticks manipulation
- Etch A Sketch
- Fanning
- Silk fan and fan veil
- Fingerboard (skateboard)
- Flags
- Color guard (flag spinning) and winter guard
- Flag throwing
- Flagging
- Pep flags
- Flip book
- 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
- Fire hooping
- Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics)
- Hoop busker
- Hoop rolling
- Hula hoop
- Native American Hoop Dance
- Rings (men's rhythmic gymnastics)
- 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
- Kamifūsen
- Kemari
- Matkot
- Mesoamerican ball game (pok-ta-pok), ulama (game), and batey (game)
- Peteca
- Picigin
- Sepak takraw
- Sipa
- Tossing the ball (Cree volleyball game)
- Volleyball manipulation
- Woggabaliri
- Kite
- Knives and swords
- Butterfly knife
- Karambit
- Knife throwing
- Urumi
- Knuckle roller
- Knucklebones
- Labyrinth
- Lasso for trick roping
- Lock picking
- Marble
- Milk caps (pogs)
- Paddleballs
- Paper folding and papercutting
- Chinese paper cutting
- Chinese paper folding
- Flexagon
- Jewish paper cutting
- Kirigami
- Net (polyhedron)
- Origami
- Action origami
- Pabalat
- Papel picado
- Paper plane
- Paper snowflake
- Pen spinning
- Perfection
- Pellet drum (rattle drum or damaru)
- Pindaloo
- Pogo stick
- Lolo ball
- Space hopper
- Vurtego
- Projectiles
- Aerobie (flying ring)
- Chakram
- Baseball (ball) and related forms
- Football
- Nerf vortex football
- Spiral foam football
- Foxtail sport (or foxtail toy or foxtail ball)
- Flying gyroscope (flying cylinder)
- Frisbee
- Golf ball
- 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
- Throwing stick
- Boomerang
- Valari
- Aerobie (flying ring)
- Punching bag and dummy
- Roly-poly toy
- Mook jong
- Speed bag
- Puppet
- Hand puppet
- Bunraku
- Finger puppet
- Glove puppet
- Human-arm puppet
- Rod puppet
- Sock puppet
- Jumping jack (toy)
- Marionette
- British marionettes
- Buz-baz (Afghan marionettes)
- Czech marionettes
- German marionettes
- Russian puppetry
- Opera dei Pupi (Sicilian marionettes)
- Yoke thé (Burmese marionettes)
- Shadow play
- Water puppetry
- Hand puppet
- 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
- Cup-and-ball and ring-and-pin
- RC helicopters, planes, cars, boats
- 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
- Shoot the moon (tabletop game)
- Simon (game)
- Skateboarding and related forms
- Kick scooter
- Eccentric-hub scooter
- Trikke (wiggle scooter)
- Roller skates
- Inline skates
- Roller shoe (heelys)
- Kick scooter
- Slinky
- Toroflux (aka flow ring)
- Speed typing contest
- Speedcubing
- Stacking and unstacking, or adding and removing games
- Barrel of Monkeys
- Blockhead!
- Buckaroo!
- Domino toppling
- Don't Break the Ice
- House of cards (card stacking)
- Jenga
- Wire loop game
- Operation (game)
- Pick-up sticks
- Bierki
- Jack straws
- Jonchets
- Mikado (game)
- Pick-up sticks (Haida)
- 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
- Tonfa
- Two section staff
- Sticky hand toy
- Stilts
- Coconut-shell walking
- Jumping stilts
- Stone skipping
- Strategy games requiring some physical skill, coordination, and dexterity
- Air hockey
- Klask
- Badminton
- Board (such as a bullseye), and other often fixed targets
- Aunt Sally
- Coconut shy
- Axe throwing
- Cornhole
- Darts and spears
- Balloon and dart
- Khuru
- Lawn darts
- Disc golf
- Dunk tank
- Horseshoes
- Knife throwing
- Ladder toss
- Penny in the hole (pitch penny)
- Toad in the hole
- Igel jokoa (frog game)
- Quarters (game)
- Washer pitching
- Toad in the hole
- Pitch-pot (touhu)
- Tejo
- Varpa
- Digor
- Aunt Sally
- Bowling
- Button football
- Subbuteo
- 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
- Pitching pennies
- Skittles
- Bunnock
- Finnish skittles
- Fowling
- Gorodki
- Kubb
- Mölkky
- Table cricket
- Table football (Foosball)
- Tabletop football
- Sports table football
- Table hockey games
- ITHF table hockey
- Table shuffleboard
- Bankboard
- Bonus Shuffle
- Table tennis (Ping pong)
- Curling
- Shuffleboard (Deck shuffleboard)
- Shove ha'penny
- Sjoelen
- Tiddlywinks
- Air hockey
- String climbers
- Friction and slip
- Mountain climber (single string)
- Climbing bear (double string)
- Double pulley or spool
- Climbing tin monkey
- Friction and slip
- Tethered ball games (tethered to a pole or anchor)
- Jokari
- Speed-ball
- Tetherball
- Totem tennis (swingball)
- Tibetan prayer wheel
- Trampoline
- Nalukataq (Eskimo blanket toss)
- Trick shot (billiards)
- Tops and other spinners
- Aeolian top
- Pinwheel (toy)
- Euler's disk
- Gyroscope
- Hurricane balls
- Rattleback
- Tippe top
- Spinning hard-boiled egg (Related examples: PhiTOP, Tesla's Egg of Columbus)
- Turkish Spinning Top or Turkish Yo-yo
- Aeolian top
- Torches
- True balance
- Whee-lo
- Magnetic Gyro Wheel
- Radiaculum
- Spiraculum
- Whirligig (Buzzer)
- Op Yop
- Wooden toy acrobat
- Whipcracking
- Yo-yos
- Punch balloon
- Yo-yo water ball
- Yo Stick
- 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
- Shaker cups
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