U.S. contestant Jake Elliott was crowned a world champion at the 2015 World Yo-Yo Contest. YoYoTricks.com The yo-yo is simple enough and the concept has been around since Greek antiquity. As a child, ...

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 ...

Every year on June 6, we celebrate National Yo-Yo Day. It coincides with the birthday of Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr, who in the 1930s, got into the yo-yo business. Yo-Yo was first sold in ...

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 ...

Saturday was the first time that Kathleen Hankinson, 12, a member of the high-tech generation, had ever played with a toy as low-tech as a yo-yo. It took only a few minutes, however, for Kathleen and ...

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 originated ...

Zach Compton, 11, of Kansas City took second place in his age division for freestyle yo-yoing at a Go Big Skills contest in December, held at the store in Shawnee. SUSAN PFANNMULLER Special to the ...

If you measure a city by the number of its Chicago icons, this could be Windy City West. For what other town in Oklahoma–or anywhere else for that matter–can boast that it is home to a Frank Lloyd ...

The yo yo, *** toy with *** history stretching to ancient times, eventually taking the world by storm becoming one of the most iconic children's toys to ever exist. But what did it take to get this ...

The Duncan Toys Company purchased the Flores Yo-Yo Company from Pedro Flores, who brought the yo-yo to the United States from ...

Retailers have reported that the yo-yo is set to become 2010's most popular toy. The simple fun device has enjoyed a ten-fold jump in sales over the past year. The yo-yo, which gained widespread ...