The history of yo-yo

The history of yo-yo The earliest yo-yo use is that as a hunting tool in the Philippines Islands. The earliest surviving yo-yo dates to 500 BCE and was made using terra cotta skin disks. A Greek vase painting from this period shows a boy playing yo-yo.... More

The history of yo-yo The earliest yo-yo use is that as a hunting tool in the Philippines Islands. The earliest surviving yo-yo dates to 500 BCE and was made using terra cotta skin disks. A Greek vase painting from this period shows a boy playing yo-yo. Greek records from the period describe toys made out of wood, metal, or painted terra cotta. The terra cotta disks were used to ceremonially offer the toys of youth to certain gods when a child came of age—discs of other materials were used for actual play. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary states that the word "yo-yo" derives from the northern Philippine Ilocano language word "yoyo". Many other sources including Panati s Extraordinary Origins of yesterdays Things say that "yo-yo" was a Tagalog word supposedly meaning "come-come" or "return". It has been acknowledged the yo-yo Less