Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...

Welcome to the spin zone! Dozens of high-strung competitors will swing down to Coney Island this weekend for the New York State Yo-Yo Contest. The competition on Dec. 8 will bring together the best yo ...

Evan Nagao of Hawaii won the 2018 World YoYo Contest, held Aug. 9 through 12 in Shanghai, performing to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird." The four-minute performance includes a fast-paced array of string ...

You may think you know everything there is to know about yo-yos, and there’s a good chance you know the basics, but there’s an even better chance there is a bigger, more fascinating world of the yo-yo ...

On a Tuesday evening, the activity room at the Eldersburg Library is swirling, as a dozen or so kids of varying ages and skill levels practice and expand upon their repertoire of yo-yo tricks. Yo-yo ...

SHERWOOD -- Colin Leland can't remember the last time he went an entire day without using a yo-yo. The 26-year-old Tualatin native figures it was sometime in 2001. That's when he first started ...

Forget about little kids walking the dog. The 21st-century yo-yo scene features the grim-faced concentration of young men in hoodies and skullcaps slinging yo-yos behind their backs and weaving ...

The Cub Scouts in Pack 295 knew all about the two-dimensional world of the video game Minecraft, but they had never “pulled the puppy by the tail.” Some of them had never even held a yo-yo in their ...

The contest features various styles of yo-yo play, with each contestant doing a performance set to music. Yo-yo like a pro: Inside the World Yo-Yo Contest in Cleveland It may not be an Olympic sport ...