A roly-poly toy , roly-poly doll , round-bottomed doll , tilting doll , tumbler , wobbly man , or wobble doll is a round-bottomed toy, usually egg-shaped, that tends to right itself when pushed at an angle, and does this in seeming contradiction to how it should fall.
10-503: [REDACTED] Look up tumbler or tumblers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tumbler may refer to: Tumbler (firearms) , a part of the firing mechanism in older firearms Tumbler (glass) , a type of glassware Tumbler (pigeon) , a pigeon breed Tumbler (Project Xanadu) , a unique identifier of a unit of text or an embedded link Tumbler toy or roly-poly toy,
20-435: A 1968 album by John Martyn See also [ edit ] Tumble dryer , for drying clothes Tumblr , an internet microblogging and social networking platform List of tumblers (small Solar System bodies) All pages with titles beginning with Tumbler All pages with titles containing Tumbler Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
30-435: A 1968 album by John Martyn See also [ edit ] Tumble dryer , for drying clothes Tumblr , an internet microblogging and social networking platform List of tumblers (small Solar System bodies) All pages with titles beginning with Tumbler All pages with titles containing Tumbler Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
40-578: A type of toy that can tumble over and then straighten up by itself Tumbler, a machine for tumble polishing solid material Tumbler, a participant in tumbling Tumbler, part of a lock Tumbler, an obsolete name for a porpoise Compost tumbler , a tumbler for composting Cryptocurrency tumbler , a service to mix and anonymize cryptocurrency The Tumbler ( Batmobile ), a prototype military vehicle used by Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy The Tumbler ,
50-487: A type of toy that can tumble over and then straighten up by itself Tumbler, a machine for tumble polishing solid material Tumbler, a participant in tumbling Tumbler, part of a lock Tumbler, an obsolete name for a porpoise Compost tumbler , a tumbler for composting Cryptocurrency tumbler , a service to mix and anonymize cryptocurrency The Tumbler ( Batmobile ), a prototype military vehicle used by Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy The Tumbler ,
60-564: The okiagari-koboshi (起き上がり小法師, "take a spill, get up, and arise"), Kokeshi doll and some types of Daruma doll of Japan , the nevаlyashka (неваляшка, "untopply") or van'ka-vstan'ka (ванька-встанька, "Ivan-get-up") of Russia , and Playskool's Weebles . Such toys' self-righting characteristics have come to symbolize the ability to have success, overcome adversity, and recover from misfortune. Traditional Chinese examples (called 不倒翁, bù dǎo wēng) are hollow clay figures of plump children, but "many Chinese folk artists shape their tumblers in
70-428: The 💕 [REDACTED] Look up tumbler or tumblers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tumbler may refer to: Tumbler (firearms) , a part of the firing mechanism in older firearms Tumbler (glass) , a type of glassware Tumbler (pigeon) , a pigeon breed Tumbler (Project Xanadu) , a unique identifier of a unit of text or an embedded link Tumbler toy or roly-poly toy,
80-415: The image of clownish mandarins as they appear on stage; in this way, they mock the inefficiency and ineptitude of the bureaucrats". Fisher-Price , a well-known toy manufacturer, recommends roly-poly toys for small children just developing motor skills ; a child can bat at it without its rolling away. The toy is typically hollow with a weight inside the bottom hemisphere . The placement of this weight
90-455: The title Tumbler . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tumbler&oldid=1134458857 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages tumbler From Misplaced Pages,
100-541: The title Tumbler . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tumbler&oldid=1134458857 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tumbler toy Different toy manufacturers and different cultures have produced different-looking roly-poly toys:
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