Battle Strikers
Battle Strikers are magnetically controlled customizable spinning tops by MagNext Toys from Mega Brands.
ForeverSpin
ForeverSpin (stylized as foreverspin) is a Canadian vendor of metal spinning tops, which have a similar appearance to the top seen in the 2010 film Inception. The company funded the initial manufactur
Top
A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect. Once set in mo
Battling Tops
Battling Tops is a children's game invented by Eddy Goldfarb and first manufactured by Ideal in 1968. In 1977 it was renamed Battling Spaceships in response to Star Wars fever. After Ideal was sold in
Bamboo-copter
The bamboo-copter, also known as the bamboo dragonfly or Chinese top (Chinese zhuqingting (竹蜻蜓), Japanese taketonbo 竹蜻蛉), is a toy helicopter rotor that flies up when its shaft is rapidly spun. This h
Gasing pangkah
Gasing pangkah is a competitive Malay game of spinning tops in which two or more players compete to strike each other's top out of a circle or to make it fall over and stop spinning. Considered part o
Dreidel
A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl (/ˈdreɪdəl/ DRAY-dəl; Yiddish: דרײדל, romanized: dreydl, plural: dreydlech; Hebrew: סביבון, romanized: sevivon) is a four-sided spinning top, played during the Jewish
Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops
In classical mechanics, the precession of a rigid body such as a spinning top under the influence of gravity is not, in general, an integrable problem. There are however three (or four) famous cases t
Spin Fighters
Spin Fighters were die-cast metal top toys that were manufactured by Bandai in China from 1993 to 1997. The tops were loaded into launchers (later, called "power launchers"), which were then tightly w
Beigoma
The beigoma (Japanese: ベーゴマ) is a traditional Japanese top that is approximately 3 cm in diameter and often decorated with kanji. When spun correctly, the beigoma makes a humming sound.
Pambaram
Pambaram பம்பரம் (in Tamil Nadu), Pambaram പമ്പരം (in Kerala), Buguri ಬುಗುರಿ (in Karnataka), Lattu لٹو (in Urdu), Bongaram బొంగరం (in Telugu), Latim লাটিম (in Bengali) is a traditional throwing top us
Bauernroulette
Bauernroulette is a game that was apparently invented in Germany, where several companies sell it. The name Bauernroulette indicates it is a "poor man's roulette", since Bauer is German for 'peasant',
Beyblade
Beyblade (ベイブレード, Beiburēdo, diminutive Bey, from the diminutive of beigoma) is a line of spinning-top toys originally developed by Takara, first released in Japan in July 1999, along with its debut s
Paengi Chigi
Paengi-Chigi (kor:팽이치기) is a traditional Korean game enjoyed by both the both young and the old and is played mainly in the winter. This game involves a top and a stick with a long string. These spin
Wizzzer
The Wizzzer or Wiz-z-zer is a gyrostat toy introduced by Mattel Toymakers in 1969, and introduced the spinning top to modern children. The "twist" (innovation) was the use of a super-spinning, high-te
Tippe top
A tippe top is a kind of top that when spun, will spontaneously invert itself to spin on its narrow stem. It was invented by a German nurse, in 1898.
Rattleback
A rattleback is a semi-ellipsoidal top which will rotate on its axis in a preferred direction. If spun in the opposite direction, it becomes unstable, "rattles" to a stop and reverses its spin to the
Mei-hwa Spinning Top Museum
The Mei-hwa Spinning Top Museum (traditional Chinese: 美華國小陀螺展示館; simplified Chinese: 美华国小陀螺展示馆; pinyin: Měihuá Guóxiǎo Tuóluó Zhǎnshìguǎn) is a museum about spinning tops in Daxi District, Taoyuan Cit
Psi wheel
A psi wheel is pyramid-shaped top-like device consisting of a small piece of paper or foil balanced on the tip of a pointed object (such as a toothpick or needle). It is commonly used in attempts to p
Euler's Disk
Euler's Disk, invented between 1987 and 1990 by Joseph Bendik, is a trademark for a scientific educational toy. It is used to illustrate and study the dynamic system of a spinning and rolling disk on
Trompo
A Trompo is a top which is spun by winding a length of string around the body, and launching it so that lands spinning on its point. If the string is attached to a stick the rotation can be maintained
Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation
Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation is a phenomenon of magnetic levitation whereby a spinning magnet or array of magnets (typically as a top) is levitated via magnetic forces above another magnet or a
Teetotum
A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin. Usage goes back
Spinja
Spinjas is a ratcheted spinning top game created by Tomy and distributed in North America by Parker Brothers in the late 1980s. The game set was sold as a Battle Stadium plastic arena with two Power W
Levitron
Levitron is a brand of levitating toys and gifts in science and educational markets marketed by Creative Gifts Inc. and Fascination Toys & Gifts. The Levitron top device is a commercial toy under this