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:
- 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:
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Marble
- Milk caps (pogs)
- Paddleballs
- Paper folding and papercutting
- Pen spinning
- Perfection
- Pellet drum (rattle drum or damaru)
- 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
- 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)
- Kick scooter
- 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
