trompo
whipping top

A trompo uses a string wrapped around it to get the necessary spin needed.

The player must roll the cord around the trompo from the metallic tip up.

The trompo surface may be painted or decorated, and some versions incorporate synthetic sound devices.

The technique for throwing a trompo varies.

These toys are popular in Latin America where the name trompo emerged, but there are very many different local names.

When rolling the cord around the trompo it must be done so that the cord is tightly attached to it.

Playing with a trompo consists of throwing the "trompo" and having it spin on the floor.

Failure to spin or spin within the circle causes your trompo to be added to it and another person has a turn to spin.

He also used to participate in the rodeos, ride horses, trompo contests and kite flying, at his father's ranch "Paso Naranja".

Because of its shape, a trompo spins on its axis and swirls around its conic tip which is usually made of iron or steel.

The string may also be wound around the point while the trompo is spinning in order to control its position or even lift the spinning top to another surface.

A trofeo has a button-shaped on top, usually bigger than the tip on which trompo spins, and generally made of the same material as the rest of the body.

One end of the cord must be rolled around the player's fingers and with the same hand the trompo must be held with the metallic tip facing upwards.

All other Latin shops started selling their Pupusas, and by 2000, a young couple of entrepreneurs opened the first taqueria in Canada, calling it "El Trompo".

Frequently, trompos in Puerto Rico and Chile are modified to have a sharper point, where in a game the object can be to split the other players trompo.

A Trompo or Whipping Top is a top which is spun by winding a length of string around the body, and launching it so that lands spinning on its point.

There, he took part in the difusion of andean instruments like the Charango and it was him who started the difusion of the Trompo music instrument in Argentina in the 1940s.

Guadalajara has twenty two museums, which include the Regional Museum of Jalisco, the Wax Museum, the Trompo Mágico children's museum and the Museum of Anthropology.

José Miguel Agrelot, a Puerto Rican comedian, hosted a long-standing television program, "Encabulla y Vuelve y Tira", whose name described the action of throwing and spinning a trompo.

The base of a trompo is a stud or spike which may have a groove or roller-bearing to facilitate lifting the spinning trompo with the whip or string without imposing much friction on the body.

In some places, achiote is also added, and then slowly cooked with a gas flame on a vertical rotisserie called a trompo (lit: spinning top), very similar to how shawarma is cooked, with a piece of fresh onion and a pineapple on top.

The city also has the Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (Municipal Institute of Art and Culture), the Tijuana Wax Museum, and the Museo El Trompo (The Trompo Museum).

Set the whipping top near them and spin it.

They both came in very warm; for they had been whipping tops, and the day was unusually hot.

Whipping tops often have a more cylindrical shape to provide a bigger surface to be struck by the whip.

Games came in seasonal cycle: skipping, bowling, hoops, whipping tops.

Selby knew it the moment he reached the meadow and looked out over the whipping tops of the bulla grass toward the sullen river.

I heard Datt shouting about his plates and saw Jean-Paul spinning drunkenly like an exhausted whipping top.

A whipping top and a piece of string could be bought for a penny; iron hoops made by the blacksmith, Mr Tom Painter, with stick were also on sale.

A Trompo or Whipping Top is a top which is spun by winding a length of string around the body, and launching it so that lands spinning on its point.

In book 13, an arrow bounces off Menelaus's shield like chickpeas off a shovel; the following book has a boulder thrown by Ajax that sends Hector "whirling like a whipping top".

Poems (1917) "Song of Honour" When stately ships are twirled and spun Like whipping tops and help there's none And mighty ships ten thousand ton Go down like lumps of lead.

Some works of fiction followed: Memoirs of a Peg Top and Jemima Placid in March 1782, and The Adventures of a Whipping Top and William Sedley the following year.