Evan Nagao of Hawaii won the 2018 World YoYo Contest, held Aug. 9 through 12 in Shanghai, performing to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird." The four-minute performance includes a fast-paced array of string ...

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 ...

In a stunning display of geometry, finalists of the U.S. National Yo-Yo Championship manipulated string around arms, hands, shoulders and even ears in Children’s Playground on Saturday. The national ...

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 ...