List of skill toys explained
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:
- Bamboo-copter
- Balance board (rola bola, rocker, rocker-roller, wobble, sphere-and-ring, spring board, above-water and under-water balance boards)
- Ball-in-a-maze puzzle
- Balloon modelling (balloon twisting)
- Baton
- Bicycle and related forms
- Bolas
- Begleri
- Blip (console)
- Bottle flipping
- Bouncing ball
- Bullroarer
- Buugeng
- Cage ball
- Cardistry
- Cat's cradle
- Catch (game) and related variants:
- 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
- Fingerboard (skateboard)
- Flags
- Flip book
- Gee-haw whammy diddle
- Glowsticking
- Gravity racer
- Gunspinning, fast draw, trick shooting, and fancy gun handling
- Hat manipulation
- Hocker, as in stool tricking or sporthocker
- Hoops
- Jacob's ladder (toy)
- Jump ropes
- Jwibulnori (perhaps also called rat fire), fire can spinning
- Keepie Uppie, and various related forms:
- Kite
- Knives and swords
- Knuckle roller
- Knucklebones
- Labyrinth
- Lasso for trick roping
- Lock picking
- Marble
- Milk caps (pogs)
- Paddleballs
- Paper folding and papercutting
- Pen spinning
- Perfection
- Pellet drum (rattle drum or damaru)
- Pindaloo
- Pogo stick
- Projectiles
- Punching bag and dummy
- Puppet
- Quoits and related games
- RC helicopters, planes, cars, boats
- Ribbons
- Rocking horse
- 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
- Slinky
- Speed typing contest
- Speedcubing
- Stacking and unstacking, or adding and removing games
- Staff (various staffs of various lengths from various martial arts)
- Sticky hand toy
- Stilts
- Stone skipping
- Strategy games requiring some physical skill, coordination, and dexterity
- String climbers
- Friction and slip
- Mountain climber (single string)
- Climbing bear (double string)
- Double pulley or spool
- Tethered ball games (tethered to a pole or anchor)
- Tibetan prayer wheel
- Trampoline
- Trick shot (billiards)
- Tops and other spinners
- 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: