# 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:
* Balance board (rola bola, rocker, rocker-roller, wobble, sphere-and-ring, spring board, above-water and under-water balance boards)
** Bilibo
** Seesaw
** Teeterboard
*** Neolttwigi
* Ball-in-a-maze puzzle
** Labyrinth (marble game)
** Perplexus
** Rubik's 360
* Balloon modelling (balloon twisting)
* Bamboo-copter
* Baton
* Bicycle and related forms
** Balance bicycle
*** Kickbike
** Jyrobike
** Quadracycle
** Tricycle
*** Big Wheel
** Unicycle
* Bolas
** Alaska yo-yo
** Astrojax
** Clackers
** Meteor
** Monkey Knuckles
** Poi
* Begleri
* Blip (console)
* Bottle flipping
* Bouncing ball
** Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
** Bouncy ball
** Skyball
** Utility ball
* Bullroarer
* Buugeng
* Cage ball
* Cardistry
** Card manipulation
** Card throwing
* 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
* 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
** Baoding balls
* 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
** Color guard (flag spinning) and winter guard
** Flag throwing
** Flagging
** Pep flags
* Flip book
* Gee-haw whammy diddle
* Glowsticking
* Gravity racer
** Soapbox cars
** Street luge
* Gunspinning, fast draw, trick shooting, and fancy gun handling
* Hat manipulation
* Hocker, as in stool tricking or sporthocker
* Hoops
** Chunkey
** Fire hooping
** Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics)
** Hoop busker
** Hoop rolling
** Hula hoop
** Native American Hoop Dance
** Rings (men's rhythmic gymnastics)
* Jacob's ladder (toy)
** Rubik's Magic
* 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
** Marngrook
** 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
* Kite
* Knives and swords
** Butterfly knife
** Karambit
** Knife throwing
** Urumi
* Knuckle roller
* Knucklebones
* Labyrinth
* Lasso for trick roping
* Lock picking
* Marble
* Milk caps (pogs)
* Paddleballs
** Bolo bat
* Paper folding and papercutting
** Chinese paper cutting
** Chinese paper folding
** Flexagon
** Jewish paper cutting
** Kirigami
** Net (polyhedron)
** Origami
*** Action origami
** Pabalat
** Papel picado
** Paper plane
** Paper snowflake
* Pen spinning
* Perfection
* Pellet drum (rattle drum or damaru)
* Pindaloo
* Pogo stick
** Lolo ball
** Space hopper
** Vurtego
* Projectiles
** Aerobie (flying ring)
*** Chakram
** Baseball (ball) and related forms
*** Cricket ball
*** Softball
*** Wiffle ball
** 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
*** Boomerang
*** Valari
* Punching bag and dummy
** Roly-poly toy
** Mook jong
** Speed bag
* Puppet
** Hand puppet
*** Bunraku
*** Finger puppet
*** Glove puppet
*** Human-arm puppet
*** Rod puppet
*** Sock 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
*** Muckers
** Ringing the bull and Bimini ring game
** Waterful ring toss
* RC helicopters, planes, cars, boats
* Ribbons
** Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics)
** Sangmo and Yoldubal
** Swing Wing (toy)
* Rocking horse
** Spring rider
* Rope dart and dragon beard hook
* Scoop ball, jai alai (toy version) which uses a wiffle ball
* Shoot the moon (tabletop game)
* Simon (game)
** Bop It
* Skateboarding and related forms
** Kick scooter
*** Eccentric-hub scooter
*** Trikke (wiggle scooter)
**** PlasmaCar (wiggle car, fun car)
**** Roller racer (flying turtle)
** Roller skates
*** Inline skates
*** Roller shoe (heelys)
* Slinky
** Toroflux (aka flow ring)
* Speed typing contest
* Speedcubing
* Stacking and unstacking, or adding and removing games
** Barrel of Monkeys
** Blockhead!
** Buckaroo!
** Domino toppling
** Don't Break the Ice
** House of cards (card stacking)
** Jenga
** Wire loop game
*** Operation (game)
** Pick-up sticks
*** Bierki
*** Jack straws
*** Jonchets
*** Mikado (game)
*** Pick-up sticks (Haida)
** Speed stacking
* 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
** Coconut-shell walking
** Jumping stilts
* Stone skipping
** Waboba
* 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
**** Coconut shy
*** 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)
**** Toad in the hole
***** Igel jokoa (frog game)
**** Quarters (game)
**** Washer pitching
*** Pitch-pot (touhu)
*** Tejo
*** Varpa
**** Digor
** Bowling
*** Alley bowling
**** Ten-pin
**** Nine-pin
**** Five-pin
**** Candlepin bowling
**** Duckpin bowling
**** Kegel
**** Trick bowling
**** Turkey bowling
*** Boules
**** Basque bowls
**** Bocce
***** Boccia
***** Bocce volo or Jeu provençal
**** Bolas criollas
**** Bolo palma
**** Bowls (lawn bowls)
**** Feather bowling
***** Rolle bolle
**** Pétanque
**** Short mat bowls
**** Taistelupetankki
**** Tejo (Argentina)
*** Carnival bowling games
**** Fascination
**** Horse race
**** Skee-Ball
** Button football
*** Subbuteo
** Croquet
*** Roque
*** Woodball
** 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
** Disk-flicking games
*** Carrom
*** Chapayev (game)
*** Crokinole
*** Novuss
*** Penny football
*** Pichenotte
*** Pitchnut
** Electric Football
** Marble (toy)
*** Cherokee marbles
** Miniature golf
*** Sholf
** Paper football
** Penny football
** Pinball
** Pitching pennies
** Skittles
*** Bunnock
*** Finnish skittles
*** Fowling
*** Gorodki
*** Kubb
*** Mölkky
** Table cricket
** Table football (Foosball)
*** Tabletop football
*** Sports table football
** Table hockey games
*** ITHF table hockey
** Table shuffleboard
*** Bankboard
*** Bonus Shuffle
** Table tennis (Ping pong)
*** Curling
*** Shuffleboard (Deck shuffleboard)
*** Shove ha'penny
*** Sjoelen
** Tiddlywinks
*** Ants in the Pants
* String climbers
** Friction and slip
*** Mountain climber (single string)
*** Climbing bear (double string)
** Double pulley or spool
*** Climbing tin monkey
* 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
*** Pinwheel (toy)
** 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
** Water ball

## 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
** Indian club
** Clubs (rhythmic gymnastics)
* Juggling ring
* Bouncing ball
* Knife juggling
* Logrolling (sport)
* 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