Spinning tops

toy designed to spin rapidly on the ground, the motion of which causes it to remain precisely balanced on its tip because of its rotational inertia

thumb|upright=1.35|Dreidels for sale at Mahane Yehuda Market in [[Jerusalem, Israel, with Israel specific lettering on blue dreidels (נ ג ה פ) and diaspora lettering on orange dreidels (נ ג ה ש)]] thumb|upright=1.35|A variety of dreidels

spinning physics toy

scientific educational toy

thumb|The top on the left is spun between the fingers - the larger (Trompo) is launched by winding with a string and throwing to the ground. A trompo is a wooden spinning top typically comes in various types of shape vary depending on culture but commonly in a half sphere appearance look on top with a conical look on the bottom portion while a metal tip is attached on the bottom. While various ones operates differently than the others, all is required a long string need to be wrap around the body. As you see in the side by side compression to the original top on the left that is spun between t

thumb|A rattleback in action 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 preferred direction.

thumb|250px|Modern Japanese taketombo bamboo-copters; wooden type with winding thread (left); plastic type (right) thumb|250px|A decorated Japanese taketombo propeller The bamboo-copter, also known as the bamboo dragonfly or Chinese top (Chinese zhuqingting (竹蜻蜓), Japanese taketonbo ), is a toy helicopter rotor that flies upward when its shaft is rapidly spun. This helicopter-like top originated in Jin dynasty China around 320 AD, and was the object of early experiments by English engineer George Cayley, the inventor of modern aeronautics.

Beyblade (Japanese: ベイブレード Beiburēdo) is a battling spinning top toyline and multimedia franchise developed by the Japanese toy company Takara. Inspired by the older beigoma, the first modern Beyblade was released in July, 1999 in Japan, along with a related manga series. It was called "Spin Dragoon" and also "Ultimate Dragoon." Following Takara's merger with Tomy in 2006, Beyblades are now developed by Takara Tomy. Various toy companies around the world have licensed Beyblade toys for their own regions, such as Hasbro in most Western countries and Sonokong in South Korea.

thumb|upright=1.35|A teetotum

thumb|300px|A brief demonstration and small explanation about the Levitron levitating top device.

thumb|Pambaram (throwing top) thumb|Lattu (Spinning top) in art, Kolkata, West Bengal thumb|right Pambaram (, ), also called the Lattu (), Latim (), Lattoo () Bhawra (), Buguri (), or Bongaram (), is a traditional throwing top mainly played in India and Bangladesh.

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.

a psi wheel is a simple paper pyramid of a metal pin which people use to practise telekinesis (power of moving things without physical contact)

upright=1.3|thumb|An older version of the game with four "bowls" on the outside. Some modern versions may have eight. 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, farmer or agricultural laborer.