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  2. List of string figures - Wikipedia

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    "Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...

  3. String figure - Wikipedia

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    Photograph of a boy having made "Lightning", from Jayne's String Figures and How to Make Them. "Osage Two Diamonds". Illustrations from Jayne's String Figures and How to Make Them. A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may ...

  4. Spanish web - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish web is an aerial circus skill in which a performer climbs and performs various tricks on an apparatus resembling a vertically hanging rope. It is similar in appearance and performance style to the corde lisse , but with the addition of loops on the rope for hands or feet, permitting one to perform a variety of spinning motions.

  5. Cut and restore rope trick - Wikipedia

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    The second method involves introducing a short piece of rope of the same type as the main rope, and cutting that instead. This can be accomplished by many sleight of hand tricks but attaching it to the main rope disguised as the loop of a knot is the most common method. When the performer removes the knot, the original rope is completely uncut. [1]

  6. Diabolo - Wikipedia

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    The stick or sticks are flicked in such a way that a loop of slack in the string is made; this then passes around the diabolo and/or sticks to attain a range of different string mounts. Excalibur/vertical: A series of tricks in which the diabolo is turned vertical. Many tricks normally done outside of vertical can also be done in vertical. Integral

  7. Yo-yo - Wikipedia

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    The word yo-yo probably comes from the Ilocano term yóyo, or a cognate word from the Philippines. [1] [2]Boy playing with a terracotta yo-yo, Attic kylix, c. 440 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin (F 2549) A 1791 illustration of a woman playing with an early version of the yo-yo, which was then called a "bandalore" Lady with a yo-yo, Northern India (Rajasthan, Bundi or Kota), c. 1770 Opaque ...

  8. Begleri - Wikipedia

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    Begleri (Greek: μπεγλέρι) is a small skill toy consisting of one or more beads at either end of a short string or chain. It can be flipped and twirled around the fingers to perform tricks. It can be flipped and twirled around the fingers to perform tricks.

  9. Trick roping - Wikipedia

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    Among the vertical loop tricks is the "Texas Skip", which involves the performer spinning the lasso in a wide loop in a vertical plane and jumping through the loop from one side to the other on each rotation. [4] Well-known trick ropers include: Vicente Oropeza was the Mexican charro that introduced the Mexican art of trick roping to the United ...