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Photo of a playground slide.

List of toys and games

Toys, games, sports, play equipment, and anything else used to have fun.

Photo of a roulette wheel
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A game in which a small ball is spun around on a moving wheel, and people try to win money by guessing which hole the ball will fall into. Roulette games can be played at home with fake money as well as in a casino.
Photo of a rubik's cube
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A Rubik's cube is a 3-dimensional puzzle invented in 1974. It has nine squares on each side. You can move parts of the cube around so that the colors get mixed up. When the puzzle is solved, each side will have all the squares the same color.
Photo of Russian dolls.
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Russian nesting dolls, also known as matryoshka dolls or babushka dolls, are small wooden dolls that fit inside each other. Russian dolls can also depict animals.
Photo of a sandcastle
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A sandcastle is something you might want to build when you are at the beach. You can pile up damp sand and mold it into any shape you like, using your hands or using a bucket as a mold.

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A sandpit, also called a sandbox, is a small walled area filled with sand that children can play in.
Photo of a boy on a scooter
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A scooter is very similar to a skateboard but usually has two wheels, and a handle to hold onto it by. The scooter in the picture has three wheels.
A game of scrabble.
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Scrabble is a game where players draw letter tiles from a bag and use them to form words on a board that looks similar to a crossword puzzle.
Photo of a seesaw or teeter totter
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A seesaw, or teeter totter, is a long board that is held up at a pivot point in the middle. When one end goes up, the other end goes down. You play with it by having one person sitting at each end, and you both go up and down in turn.
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A skateboard is a piece of wood with wheels underneath. You stand on the skateboard and push with one foot to make it go forwards, or just stand on it if you are on a slope. People can do lots of tricks on skateboards, like jumping and twisting. On a large skateboard ramp people can even flip right over in the air.
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Skis are long flat things you wear on the bottom of your feet to help you slide over snow. Someone who skis is a skier. There are lots of different kinds of skiing, most of which you can see at the Winter Olympics.