Spinning top
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A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect.
An assortment of spinning tops
Ancient Roman wooden spinning top, from Tebtynis (Egypt), dating from the 1st–3rd century CE
Extract from Children's Games (1560)
A cheap plastic version of the perinola
Dreidel
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A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in Europe and
Spinning top
…Beigoma, in Japan Beyblade Gasing pangkah, in Malaysia Spin Fighters Tuj lub, among Hmong people Pambaram, in India and Bangladesh Gaming and other tops Dreidel, traditionally played during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Lattu, a throwing top used in India and Bangladesh. Levitating top Perinola, a six-sided…
Dreidels for sale at Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, Israel, with Israel specific lettering on blue dreidels (נ ג ה פ) and diaspora lettering on orange dreidels (נ ג ה ש)
A variety of dreidels
Ancient Middle Eastern top resembling a dreidel
Wooden dreidel