List of skill toys
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:
- Artistic billiards
- 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
- Bolas
- Begleri
- Bottle flipping
- Bouncing ball
- Bullroarer
- Cage ball
- Cardistry
- 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
- Fingerboard (skateboard)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Projectiles
- Aerobie (Flying ring)
- 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
- Punching bag and dummy
- 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
- 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)
- Stone skipping
- Strategy games with dexterity
- Air hockey
- Boules
- Bocce
- Bolas criollas
- Bowls (Lawn bowls)
- Pétanque
- Short mat bowls
- Tejo (Argentina)
- Button football
- Carrom
- Chapayev (game)
- Crokinole
- Croquet
- Electric Football
- Marble (toy)
- Miniature golf
- Paper football
- Penny football
- Pinball
- Pocket billiards
- Table football (Foosball)
- Table hockey games
- Table shuffleboard
- Bankboard
- Bonus Shuffle
- Curling
- Shuffleboard (Deck shuffleboard)
- Shove ha'penny
- Sjoelen
- Tiddlywinks
- 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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