A Japanese top

A top, or spinning top, is a toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point. The top is one of the oldest recognizable toys found on archaeological sites. Besides toys, tops have also historically been used for gambling and prophecy. Some role-playing gamers still use tops to augment dice in generating randomized results; it is in this case referred to as a spinner. A thumbtack may also be made to spin on the same principles. Look up top in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 767 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The content of this image was reviewed by Andre Engels and afterwards uploaded by FlickrLickr. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 767 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The content of this image was reviewed by Andre Engels and afterwards uploaded by FlickrLickr. ... A teddy bear A toy is an object used in play. ... For referencing in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Citing sources. ... Gamble redirects here. ... For other uses, see Prophecy (disambiguation). ... This article is about games in which one plays the role of a character. ... Two standard six-sided pipped dice with rounded corners. ... A brass thumbtack A thumbtack (known as a drawing-pin in the UK, India, Australia and New Zealand) is a short nail or pin with a large, slightly rounded head made of metal which is used to fasten documents to a background for public display and which can easily be...

The action of a top relies on the gyroscopic effect for its operation. Typically the top will at first wobble until the shape of the tip and its interaction with the surface force it upright. After spinning upright for an extended period, the angular momentum, and therefore the gyroscopic effect will gradually lessen, leading to ever increasing precession, finally causing the top to topple in a frequently violent last thrash. A gyroscope For other uses, see Gyroscope (disambiguation). ... This gyroscope remains upright while spinning due to its angular momentum. ... Precession redirects here. ...

In recent years there have been many developments with the technology of the top. Bearing tops, with a tip that spins, have been one of the biggest changes. Fixed tip tops and bearing tops are featured in National Championships in Chico, California and in the World Championships in Orlando, Florida.^{[citation needed]}

Types of tops

• Concertina top
• Dreidel (also spelled "dradel", "dreidl", or "dreydl")
• Dueling top
  • Bei-goma
  • Beyblade
• Flaming top
• Floating top
• Gaming top
• Perinola; a six-sided top, very similar to the dreidel, that is used for a similar game in Latin America.^[1]
• Tippe top
• Trompo
• Whipping top
• Whistling top
• Gasing leper
• Gasing jantung
• Spinja
• Battling top

Dreidel A dreidel (Hebrew: סביבון, ) is a four-sided top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. ... This article is about the toy. ... The Levitron is a device consisting of a permanently magnetized top that can levitate above a magnetic base as long as it spins at the right speed. ... Bambaram or Spinning Tops are used for fun experience game used in Tamil Nadu, India. ... A tippe top A tippe top is a kind of top. ... Trompo A Trompo is a toy popular in Latin America much like a top. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Spinjas is a ratcheted spinning top game created by Parker Brothers in the late 1980s. ...

See also

• Levitron
• Rattleback or celt, a top that reverses its spin direction.
• Gyroscope
• Wizzer
• Bauernroulette
• The Top - Short story by Franz Kafka
• Gee-haw whammy diddle
• Yo-yo

The Levitron is a device consisting of a permanently magnetized top that can levitate above a magnetic base as long as it spins at the right speed. ... Carved wooden rattleback A rattleback, also known as a celt, Celtic stone, rattlerock, spin bar, Tates, wobble stone or wobblestone, and by the product names ARK, Bizzaro Swirls, RATTLEBACKS, Space Pet and Space Toy, is a semi-ellipsoidal top which will spin on its axis in a preferred direction. ... A gyroscope For other uses, see Gyroscope (disambiguation). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Bauernroulette is a game in which a whipping top is spun in the middle of a wooden circular playing surface that contains 6 wooden balls. ... The Top (Der Kreisel) is a short story by Franz Kafka, written sometime between 1917 to 1923. ... This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The yo-yo is a toy consisting of two equally-sized discs of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, around which a string is wound. ...

References

1. ^ National Recreation Association (1965). Recreation, 92. 

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