Abstract: A yo-yo that provides enhanced performance, expeditiously responds to retrieval movement, and is otherwise responsive upon the string, yet still provides prolonged rotational inertia for the overall facilitation of complex tricks, maneuvers, and general yo-yo play.

Abstract: A spinning top including a hollow body having a vertical spin axis and including an upper and a lower body portion rigidly connected together directly or preferably interconnected by a weighted annular ring for increased rotational inertia. A replaceable pointed tip is connected to the lower end of the lower body portion for free rotation only with respect to the body, the pointed tip engaging against a support surface when the body is in spinning motion. A second bearing-mounted pointed tip may be releasably connected concentric with the spin axis and upwardly extending from an upper end of the upper body portion whereby the spinning top may be lifted from one support surface and placed onto another support surface without interrupting spinning motion of the top.

Abstract: A yo-yo including a pair of yo-yo body halves each formed as a composite having an inner hub, a central preferably dish-shaped main body portion defining an inward facing surface and an annular-shaped peripheral body portion. An axle is threadably engaged at each end thereof into a hub thread formed into each hub along an axis of rotation of the yo-yo. Each hub also includes a shoulder positioned radially adjacent the hub thread which, when the axle is fully tightened in frictional engagement into each hub thread by tightening rotation between the body halves, bear against one another to define a minimum gap between the inward facing surfaces of the body halves. A miniature bearing is also provided having an inner ring tightly frictionally engaged over each shoulder, each end of the bearing extending into an annular recess formed into each inward facing surface adjacent to the hub to maintain a tether in wrapped engagement around an outer ring of the bearing.