
The yo-yo is an example of a skill toy
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
 - Simply Fit Board
 - Teeterboard
 
 - Ball-in-a-maze puzzle
 - Balloon modelling (Balloon twisting)
 - Baton
 - Bicycle and related forms
 - Bolas
- Alaska yo-yo
 - Astrojax
 - Clackers
 - Meteor
 - Monkey Knuckles
 - Oxbow hammer (Puppy hammer)
 - Poi
 
 - Begleri
 - Blip (console)
 - Bottle flipping
 - Bouncing ball
 - Bullroarer
 - Buugeng
 - Cage ball
 - Cardistry
 - 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 or Big wheel)
 - 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
 - Flip book
 - Flip N Flyer
 - Floating blow pipe ball
 - Gee-haw whammy diddle
 - Glowsticking
 - Gravity racer
- Carrinhos de rolimã
 - Soapbox cars
 - Street luge
 
 - 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
- 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
 - 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
 - Knuckle roller
 - Knucklebones
 - Labyrinth
 - Lasso for Trick roping
 - Lock picking
 - Mandala toy (a.k.a. Wire Mandala toy)
 - Marble
 - Milk caps (Pogs)
 - Paddleballs
 - Paper folding and Papercutting
 - Paper yo-yo
 - Pen spinning
 - Perfection
 - Pellet drum (Rattle drum or Damaru)
 - Pili, based on the game jianzi
 - Pindaloo
 - Pogo stick
 - Projectiles
- Aerobie (Flying ring)
 - 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
 
 - Punching bag and dummy
- Roly-poly toy (e.g. Bobo doll toy)
 - Mook jong
 - Speed bag
 
 - Puppet
- Hand 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
 
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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)
 - Aircoasters
 
 
 - Kick scooter
 - Sit 'n Spin
 - Slinky
- Toroflux (aka Flow ring)
 
 - Speed typing contest
 - Speedcubing
 - Stacking and Unstacking, or Adding and Removing games
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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)
 - Pitch-pot (Touhu)
 - Tejo
 - Varpa
 
 - Bowling
- Alley bowling
 - Boules
 - Carnival bowling games
- Fascination
 - Horse Race
 - Skee-Ball
 
 
 - Button football
 - Croquet
 - 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
 - Electric Football
 - Marble (toy)
 - Miniature golf
 - Paper football
 - Penny football
 - Pinball
 - Pitching pennies
 - Skittles
 - Table cricket
 - Table football (Foosball)
 - Table hockey games
 - Table shuffleboard
 - 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
 - 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
 
 - 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
 
References
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