It may not be an Olympic sport yet, but yo-yo play is serious business. Especially in Cleveland this week, where the world’s most skilled yo-yo players are gathering for The World Yo-Yo Contest.

June 6 marks National Yo-Yo Day, a celebration of one of the world's oldest and most enduring toys. The date honors the birthday of Donald F. Duncan Sr., the entrepreneur who helped turn the yo-yo ...

When you played with a yo-yo, have you ever wondered when and where this toy came from? The truth is, we don’t have an exact answer for either. While historians suggest that the toy likely ...

For most people, yo-yos are a toy that they played with sporadically as children until they got too frustrated, or the string got too tangled to continue. For others, it’s a hobby, a community ...

There’s no other place in the world these kids from the Arlington Yo-Yo club would rather be at 3:30 in the afternoon while other kids start their weekends. “It was my son Javier’s idea to ...

We’d have something in our hands to play with.” Postwar Kindergarten. One yo-yo had been given the Latins: the State Department’s current series of “Informal Talks” about postwar ...

I am certain that many of you have a lot of fun playing computer and video games today, but I also suspect that there are some of you that had fun playing with a yo-yo, back in the day.