Rolling hoops game

Canadian Eskimo players divide into two groups. While the first group rolls the hoops, a large and a small one, the players in the other group attempt to throw spears through the hoops. Among the European settlers, hoop-rolling was a seasonal sport, seeing the greatest activity in the winter. Children, beside rolling the hoops, also tossed them back and forth, catching them on their sticks.

Hoop driving was also seen as a remedy for the sedentary and overprotected lives led by many American girls of the midth century. The game was popular with both girls and boys: in a survey of boys and girls in Massachusetts, both the girls and the boys named hoop and stick their favorite toy. In Ohio, the wood of the American elm Ulmus americana was particularly valued for making hoop-poles.

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It was then found that without removing the hook the hoop could be kept trundling at any desired pace. Moreover, by the slightest possible turn or twist of the wrist, the hoop could be guided into any desired direction. With the hook, the sharpest of corners or the smallest of circles were made without any risk of overturning the hoop; such feats could never be attained by the stick.

Ingenuity devised many descriptions of hoop games. In the s, it was not unusual to see young boys rolling hoops through city streets — causing havoc to the horse and buggy traffic.

This photograph features young boys playing with hoops in Courtesy of Toronto Public Library]. Includes four inch wands and two ribbon-tied hardwood hoops, complete instructions and history. Features nostalgic illustrations. Includes four 16"throwing rods and two smaller ribbon-tied hoops, complete instructions and history. The 'Graces' game was intended to teach graceful movements to young ladies and , later, young gentlemen. Features hornbook lesson sheet on the wooden paddles.

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The object of this outdoor game is to set the hoop in motion and keep it going with the 'trundling' T-stick. Includes complete history and directions. In Ancient Greece, the hoop was called krikoi , while the word used for the stick was elater. While the game was gaining importance, becoming a sort of a national sport at one point, it also acquired a symbolic potential, thanks to which we are able to reconstruct the significance of hoop rolling during the period.

Hoops made of bronze were usually attributed to Dionysus. As the myth goes, the mysterious and omnipotent Greek god used to roll hoops, just like any other toddler, during his infancy. Also Ganymede, a mortal who was, thanks to his exquisite beauty, chosen by Zeus to be his cup-bearer, was depicted as a young man in his teens rolling a hoop. Children playing with hoops in Toronto, Like many other traits of Greek culture, religion, and custom, hoop rolling was no exception when it came to being incorporated into Roman society.

The Romans had great respect for the Greek Hoop, or trochus as they called it, and held it in high regard. They introduced some changes as well. The stick, known as clavis or radius , was shaped like a key and made of metal, with a wooden handle.

The design of the hoop advanced as well, for the Greeks used bronze, iron, or copper for making hoops, while the Romans were aware that the wheel must be lighter, but firmly assembled in order to function better.