Bean bag

For other uses, see Bean bag (disambiguation).

Bean bags like these are commonly used as juggling props.

Bean bag chairs

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A bean bag (also beanbag) is a sealed bag containing dried beans, PVC pellets or expanded polystyrene, with various applications. As bean bag games are not apt to cause injury, they are referenced in the famous aphorism by the Irish-American politico Finley Peter Dunne that "Politics ain't bean bag."

Games

• Bean bag toss (sometimes called cornhole in the Ohio Valley of the United States), is a game similar to horseshoes and quoits, played with bean bags and two goals.
• Footbag (also known as Hacky Sack, which is actually a trademark) is a type of ball-shaped bean bag that is used to play various games.
• Bean bags are also commonly used for juggling.
• In gridiron football beanbags are used to mark the point of a change of possession (where a punt or kickoff is caught, an interception is made, or a fumble occurs)
• Bean bags are often used for a game similar to dodgeball where small square bean bags are slid across the floor with the object to hit the opposing team's players in the foot. The game is particluarly popular in American elementary schools as a "safer" alternative to dodgeball.

Innovative Uses

• Bean bags have been used to make ammunition for impact weapons, including riot guns.
• Clutching technology for robots makes use of bean bags.
• Smaller bean bags can be used to stabilize a photograph or video camera when a tripod is not available.

See also

• Bean bag gun
• Footbag
• Cornhole
• LoveSac

External links

• Media related to Beanbags at Wikimedia Commons