Toys & games

Snooker is a game of billiards where a player tries to shoot colored balls into the pockets of a billiard table in order.

Solitaire is a card game that you can play alone. The goal of solitaire is to get rid of all your cards by placing them in order.

Stilts are long posts you wear on your legs that make you taller. You can get lots of different types of stilts. There are ones that are very long that you have to hold onto with your hands and there are little steps for your feet. There are ones like in the picture that strap to your legs so your hands are free. And you can make your own by putting loops of string through large cans so you can hold the ends of the string, and then you stand on the cans.

A swing is a piece of playground equipment made out of a seat hanging from some kind of support. In playgrounds the support is made from metal or wood especially for the swing, and in backyards swings are often hung from a tree.
You use a swing by sitting in the seat and swinging it backwards and forwards. You can do it by yourself or you can get someone else to push you.

Ten pin bowling is an indoor sport that involves rolling a heavy ball along the ground inside a specially designed building, with the aim of knocking over a group of pins all at once. The more pins you knock over at once, the better your score.

Tightrope walking is a performance act where someone balances along a rope. They might do acrobatics on the rope, or walk on the rope at a dangerous height.

A trampoline is a big platform that you jump up and down on. Trampolines have a woven surface held tight by springs, so they are great fun to bounce on.

A yoyo is a toy made from two heavy halves with a gap between them. A string is looped around an axle in the gap, but not tied on. You hold onto the end of the string, usually by a loop that goes around your finger, and you can make the yoyo go up and down. You can also do lots of other tricks once you get good at playing with a yoyo.