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25-534: (Redirected from Boy Toy ) [REDACTED] Look up boy toy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boy toy may refer to: Boys' toys and games Boy Toy (novel) , a 2007 novel by Barry Lyga Boy Toy (film) , a 2011 film starring John White Boy Toy/Inspection Detection , an episode of the TV show The Fairly OddParents A belt worn by Madonna, originally on

50-540: A cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo , Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic *ballon (weak masculine), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ , Middle High German balle , Proto-Germanic *ballôn (weak feminine). No Old English representative of any of these is known. (The answering forms in Old English would have been beallu, -a, -e —compare bealluc, ballock .) If ball- was native in Germanic, it may have been

75-414: A ball or balls and subject to rules are treated under their various names, such as polo , cricket , football , etc. In sports , many modern balls are pressurized. Some are pressurized at the factory (e.g. tennis , squash (sport) ) and others are pressurized by users (e.g. volleyball , basketball , football ). Almost all pressurized balls gradually leak air. If the ball is factory pressurized, there

100-515: A cognate with the Latin foll-is in sense of a "thing blown up or inflated." In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle "ball" and "bale" which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source. French balle (but not boule ) is assumed to be of Germanic origin, itself, however. In Ancient Greek the word πάλλα ( palla ) for "ball" is attested besides

125-524: A game called episkyros (ἐπίσκυρος), which has often been looked on as the origin of football. It seems to have been played by two sides, arranged in lines; how far there was any form of "goal" seems uncertain. It was impossible to produce a ball that was perfectly spherical; children usually made their own balls by inflating pig's bladders and heating them in the ashes of a fire to make them rounder, although Plato (fl. 420s BC – 340s BC) described "balls which have leather coverings in twelve pieces". Among

150-854: A range from technologically enhanced humans to cyborgs to sentient robots. One product line by Revell called Beast Machines even depicted figures which had humanoid heads and torsos, but tanks from the waist down. Tomy's Z-Knights toys introduced terms related to computer technology, in effect of masculinizing them by using humanoid robot characters named like Megahertz , CPU , and Kilabyte ( kilobyte ). The very popular Transformers line, Power Rangers (American adaptation of Super Sentai ) and related media depicted sentient robots, almost all of which were portrayed as male, which could transform into various vehicles and animals. This interaction with machinery persists into adulthood. Cultural phenomenon like car races such as NASCAR promote similar ideas of masculinity, competition, and rough play that

175-469: A revolutionary change for the toy business. According to professor of education Diane Levin, this pattern for companies escalated so as by December 1985, 9/10 popular children's toys were associated with television shows. In 2012, sociologist Carol Auster analyzed Disney's retail website and realized toys were specifically listed as “girl” or “boy” toys. Currently, Disney cross-lists its toys under each section yet less than 23% toys appeared on both lists with

200-669: A wedding dress for the 1984 album cover of Like a Virgin Boy Toy Inc., a subsidiary of Semtex Girls, a production company owned by Madonna The name of a fashion collection (French: l'homme objet ) by Jean Paul Gaultier See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "boy toy"  or "boytoy" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Boy Toy All pages with titles beginning with Boytoy All pages with titles containing boy toy All pages with titles containing boytoy Toy boy (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

225-432: Is a function of temperature, generally tracking ambient conditions. Softer balls that are struck hard (especially squash balls) increase in temperature due to inelastic collision . In outdoor sports, wet balls play differently than dry balls. In indoor sports, balls may become damp due to hand sweat. Any form of humidity or dampness will affect a ball's surface friction, which will alter a player's ability to impart spin on

250-777: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Boys%27 toys and games Research suggests that there may be some biological predispositions at play that drive toy preferences. Kim Wallen, a psychologist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center , found in her study that male rhesus monkeys played with model dump trucks and other wheeled toys, over plush dolls . Infant boys and girls as young as 9 months old have been found to display stereotypical toy preferences, suggesting that there are biological and environmental factors which appear very early in development. A City, University of London study found that in children aged 9 to 32 months, boys preferred balls and toy cars , and that

275-419: Is usually a rule about whether the ball retains sufficient pressure to remain playable. Depressurized balls lack bounce and are often termed "dead". In extreme cases, a dead ball becomes flaccid. If the ball is pressured on use, there are generally rules about how the ball is pressurized before the match, and when (or whether) the ball can be repressurized or replaced. Due to the ideal gas law , ball pressure

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300-462: The Romans , ball games were looked upon as an adjunct to the bath, and were graduated to the age and health of the bathers, and usually a place (sphaeristerium) was set apart for them in the baths (thermae). There appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the pila, or small ball, used in catching games, the paganica, a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the follis , a leather ball filled with air,

325-458: The ancient Greeks , games with balls (σφαῖραι) were regarded as a useful subsidiary to the more violent athletic exercises, as a means of keeping the body supple, and rendering it graceful, but were generally left to boys and girls. Of regular rules for the playing of ball games, little trace remains, if there were any such. The names in Greek for various forms, which have come down to us in such works as

350-460: The counter-stereotypic photos were more open to the idea of boys and girls possibly liking toys usually geared toward the opposite gender. However, seeing the photos did not change the child's own opinions about which toys they would select. Toys often introduce or reinforce interest in, machinery and technology for boys. These toys can also often blur the lines of the man-machine dichotomy, with action figures that represent males as machines on

375-501: The largest of the three. This was struck from player to player, who wore a kind of gauntlet on the arm. There was a game known as trigon , played by three players standing in the form of a triangle, and played with the follis, and also one known as harpastum , which seems to imply a "scrimmage" among several players for the ball. These games are known to us through the Romans, though the names are Greek. The various modern games played with

400-408: The majority cross-listed colors more typically associated with boys perpetuating masculinity as the default of gender-neutral children's toys. Traditional toys for boys include: Traditional games played by boys include: Ball A ball is a round object (usually spherical , but can sometimes be ovoid ) with several uses. It is used in ball games , where the play of the game follows

425-557: The most familiar spherical objects to humans, the word "ball" may refer to or describe spherical or near-spherical objects. "Ball" is used metaphorically sometimes to denote something spherical or spheroid, e.g., armadillos and human beings curl up into a ball, making a fist into a ball. The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in Layamon's Brut, or Chronicle of Britain in

450-468: The phrase, " Summe heo driuen balles wide ȝeond Þa feldes. " ("Some of them drove balls far across the fields.") The word came from the Middle English bal (inflected as ball-e, -es , in turn from Old Norse böllr (pronounced [bɔlːr] ; compare Old Swedish baller , and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z (whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es , Middle Dutch bal ),

475-448: The preference increased with age. In a 2018 study done by developmental psychologist Lauren Spinner, the effects of images of children playing with stereotypic or counter-stereotypic toys was analyzed on kids age 4 to 7 years old. After the subjects were shown one of the images, they were asked to pick whether a boy or girl would play with a selection of toys such as a baby doll, jet fighter, tool kit, tea set, etc. Children who were shown

500-457: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boy toy . 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=Boy_toy&oldid=1190669287 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing French-language text Short description

525-423: The state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for simpler activities, such as catch or juggling . Balls made from hard-wearing materials are used in engineering applications to provide very low friction bearings, known as ball bearings . Black-powder weapons use stone and metal balls as projectiles . Although many types of balls are today made from rubber , this form

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550-675: The stereotypical boy's toy might also encourage. In a study done by sociologist Elizabeth Sweet, the history of toys marketed by gender was analyzed in Sears catalogs from the 20th century. In this study, advertisements published from the 1920s to the 1950s often promoted stereotypical roles of men and women to boys and girls. During the Reagan Administration, the regulations limiting advertisers’ ability to reach children became dismantled. Shows such as My Little Pony and Transformers were created to both entertain and advertise simultaneously –

575-682: The word σφαίρα ( sfaíra ), sphere . Some form of game with a ball is found portrayed on Egyptian monuments. In Homer , Nausicaa was playing at ball with her maidens when Odysseus first saw her in the land of the Phaeacians (Od. vi. 100). And Halios and Laodamas performed before Alcinous and Odysseus with ball play, accompanied with dancing (Od. viii. 370). The most ancient balls in Eurasia have been discovered in Karasahr , China and are 3000 years old. They were made of hair-filled leather. Among

600-425: The Ὀνομαστικόν of Julius Pollux , imply little or nothing of such; thus, ἀπόρραξις ( aporraxis ) only means the putting of the ball on the ground with the open hand, οὐρανία ( ourania ), the flinging of the ball in the air to be caught by two or more players; φαινίνδα ( phaininda ) would seem to be a game of catch played by two or more, where feinting is used as a test of quickness and skill. Pollux (i. x. 104) mentions

625-540: Was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus . The Spanish were the first Europeans to see the bouncing rubber balls (although solid and not inflated) which were employed most notably in the Mesoamerican ballgame . Balls used in various sports in other parts of the world prior to Columbus were made from other materials such as animal bladders or skins, stuffed with various materials. As balls are one of

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