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Children playing with a ball and hoop.

Children Playing

Children playing with a ball and hoop.

"The Bull Finch is a well known bird, locally know as the norskpipe, the coal-hood, the hoop, or the tony hoop, the alp, and the hope. Its song is much prized. It is often domesticated. It is found in many lands."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Bull Finch

"The Bull Finch is a well known bird, locally know as the norskpipe, the coal-hood, the hoop, or the…

"Another style of hand-weeder, made at home out of hoop-iron." — Baily, 1898

Home-made hand-weeder

"Another style of hand-weeder, made at home out of hoop-iron." — Baily, 1898

A boy playing with his hoop.

Hoops

A boy playing with his hoop.

"Two hoops of thin iron are placed upon an axis which passes through their poles. The two ends of each hoop cross each other at right angles, and are fastened together, and to the axis at the bottom. At the upper end they slide up and down on the axis, which is turned rapidly by wheel-work as represented. These hoops, before the motion begins, have an oval form, but when turned rapidly, the centrifugal force causes them to expand, or swell at the equator, while they are depressed at the poles, the two polar regions becoming no more distant than a and b." —Comstock, 1850

Pole Depression

"Two hoops of thin iron are placed upon an axis which passes through their poles. The two ends of each…

A ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground.

Small Vehicle Tire

A ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel to protect it and enable better vehicle performance…

"Trochus, a hoop. The Greek boys used to exercise themselves, like ours, with trundling a hoop. It was a bronze ring, and had sometimes bells attached to it. It was impelled by means of a hook with a wooden handle called a clavis. From the Greeks this custom passed to the Romans, who consequently adopted the Greek term. The hoop was used at the Gymnasia, and, therefore, on one of the gems in the Stosch collection at Berlin, which is engraved in the annexed wood-cut, it is accompanied by the jar of oil and the bay branch, the emblems of effort and of victory. On each side of this we have represented another gem from the same collection. Both of these exhibit youths trundling the hoop by means of the hook or key. These show the size of the hoop, which in the middle figure has also three small rings or bells on its circumference." &mdash Smith; 1873

Trochus

"Trochus, a hoop. The Greek boys used to exercise themselves, like ours, with trundling a hoop. It was…