cup-and-ball

He was quite happy, playing like a child, at cup-and-ball.

The cup-and-ball is noted in France as early as the sixteenth century.

Cup-and-ball (or ball in a cup) or ring and pin is a traditional children's toy.

Beside him, engrossed in cup-and-ball, was his wife.

Kendama bears similarities to the classic cup-and-ball game, and the Hispanic world toy known as boliche or balero.

Hobbies: Cup-and-ball, tilting, and fretwork.

Paracho, Aranza and Chrán make tops, yo-yo and cup-and-ball toys with small wood trucks made in Quiroga.

Thus the vertebrae of snakes articulate with each other by eight joints in addition to the cup-and-ball on the centrum, and interlock by parts reciprocally receiving and entering one another, like the mortise and tenon jointery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions the game early in his Confessions when stating his reservations about idle talk and hands, saying "If ever I went back into society I should carry a cup-and-ball in my pocket, and play with it all day long to excuse myself from speaking when I had nothing to say."