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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Evan Nagao of Hawaii won the 2018 World YoYo Contest, held Aug. 9 through 12 in Shanghai, performing to Lynyrd Skynyrd's ...

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 ...

Everybody knows how a yo-yo works. It's two disks mounted on an axle attached to a piece of string, and it goes up and down if you throw it right. But what about when the two disks and the axle aren't ...

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 ...

To most people, a yo-yo is just a toy. But to Gentry Stein, the whirling bundle of string, plastic, and precision ball-bearings can become much more in the right hands. “It is a simple toy,” he admits ...

Ryan Connolly, a financial analyst from North Easton, Massachusetts, is the current world yo-yo champion. Connolly's unique, self-taught style incorporates tricks learned from watching videos of ...