roly-poly toy , also: wobbly man , also: tilting doll , also: roly poly doll

Many roly-poly toys are hollow, with a weight inside the bottom.

The bottom of a roly-poly toy is round, roughly a hemisphere.

Wish Come True is a line of roly-poly toys sold in blind boxes.

Okiagari-koboshi are roly-poly toys made from papier-mâché, dating back to at least the 14th-century.

Gomboc is a homogeneous object with the same self-righting feature as roly-poly toy.

A toy manufacturer recommends roly-poly toys for small children just developing motor skills; a child can bat at it without its rolling away.

A more common example is the Comeback Kid, Weeble or roly-poly toy (see left figure).

A tanjore doll is a type of traditional Indian bobblehead or roly-poly toy made of terracotta material.

In Japanese a roly-poly toy is called okiagari, meaning to get up (oki) and arise (agari).

In 1973, the company changed to its current name Ottogi which means roly-poly toy or Daruma doll in pure Korean.

A roly-poly toy, round-bottomed doll, tilting doll, tumbler or wobbly man is a toy that rights itself when pushed over.

Dynamogene Theater stages a performance called "Monsieur Culbuto", allowing the audience to interact with a human dressed as a roly-poly toy.

Weebles is a trademark for several lines of children's roly-poly toys originating in Hasbro's Playskool division on July 23, 1971.

The Noddy stories by Enid Blyton have characters Mr. and Mrs Wobblyman, who are based on this sort of roly-poly toy.

(The Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language of Vladimir Dahl gives the meaning of "cheburashka" as another name for the roly-poly toy.)

There are countless examples: Piero della Francesca computer-mouse pads, roly-poly toys based on "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, software that turns out print like Miro's handwriting.

Different toy manufacturers and different cultures produce different-looking roly-poly toys: the okiagari-koboshi and some types of Daruma doll of Japan, the nevаlashka or vanka-vstanka of Russia, and Playskool's Weebles.

An early running gag involved Gaston coming up with elaborate and extremely impractical costumes for fancy dress parties at the facetious suggestions of his colleagues: Roly-poly toy, octopus, Greek urn, petrol pump, Eiffel Tower etc.