What kind of toy is a gyro?

The upper half of the shape is round and the lower half is pointed. It used to be made of wood, but now it is mostly made of plastic or iron. When you play, you can wrap it with a rope and pull it hard to make it rotate upright. Or rotated by the elastic force of a spring.

The traditional ancient gyro is roughly an inverted cone made of wood or iron, and the game is split with a whip. Gyroscopes emitted by transmitters have been used in modern times.

Of course, there are also some "hand-twisted gyros" that are very popular. Gyroscope is a very familiar toy for teenagers. Popular all over the world. China is the hometown of gyro. A stone gyro was unearthed in the Neolithic site in Xia County, Shanxi Province, China. It can be seen that gyroscopes have a history of at least four or five thousand years in China.

Extended data:

It is generally believed that playing a gyro is a toy thrown by a wooden gyro, that is, after winding the gyro with cotton rope, throwing the gyro by hand and rotating it around the gyro nail; In addition, in Chinese mainland, some people whip the gyro to keep it spinning; In order to popularize gyro skills and increase learners' learning motivation,

Cleverly used other methods (hat, waste tire, spring, friction principle, single-headed bell, clothes rack, etc. ) made many novel children's play works related to the gyro, and even added batteries and colorful light bulbs to the gyro to make it spin.

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-gyro