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List of skill toys
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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
Common examples of skill toys include:
- Alaska yo-yo
- Astrojax
- Balance boards
- Ball-in-a-maze puzzle and its variants:
- Balls, when used e.g. for juggling or in rhythmic gymnastics
- Baton
- Begleri
- Boomerang
- Butterfly knife
- Buugeng
- Cards, when used for Cardistry or Card throwing
- Cat's cradle
- Chatter ring
- Clackers
- Claw crane
- Coins, when used for coin manipulation
- Cup-and-ball and ring-and-pin
- Devil sticks
- Diabolo
- Dice, when used for dice stacking
- Fingerboard
- Hats, when used for hat manipulation
- Hocker, as in stool tricking or sporthocker
- Hoops, when used for hoop rolling or hula hoop
- Chinese jump rope
- Skip-It
- Footbag
- Hand sack
- Jokari and related games:
- Knuckle roller
- Knucklebones
- Marble
- Milk caps (pogs)
- Monkey Knuckles
- Paddleballs (bolo bat)
- Pens, when used for pen spinning
- Pinball
- Pogo stick
- Lolo ball
- Poi
- Kendama
- Ring toss
- Rubik's cube
- Rubik's Magic
- Swing Wing
- Skateboard
- Slinky
- Tops and other spinners
- Yo-yos
- Zippo lighters, when used for manipulation
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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
- Dapo Star
- Flair bartending
- Teh tarik (Pulled Tea)
- Juggling club
- Juggling ring
- Bouncing ball
- Knife juggling
- Logrolling (sport)
- 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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See also
References
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