Yo-yo (disambiguation)

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A yo-yo is a toy.

Yo-yo may also refer to:

People

• Yo-Yo (rapper) (born 1971), American hip hop artist
• Yo-Yo Davalillo (1931–2013), Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
• Yo-Yo Ma (born 1955), Chinese-American cellist

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Hoops&Yoyo, a pair of animated characters featured on Hallmark Cards
• Yo-Yo Rodriguez, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

Film

• Yo Yo (1965), a comedy film

Music

• Yoyo A Go Go, a music festival in Olympia, Washington

Groups

• The Yo-Yos, a British rock band

Albums

• Yo-Yo (album), a 1996 album by The Choirboys

Songs

• "Yo-Yo" (Joey Moe song), 2009
• "Yo-Yo" (Nicola Roberts song), 2012
• "Yo-Yo" (Billy Joe Royal song), also covered by The Osmonds
• "Yo-Yo", a song by The Kinks from Give the People What They Want

Other uses

• Yo-Yo (ride) or swing ride, a type of amusement park ride
• Yo-Yo, a type of aircraft maneuver
• Yo-Yo, to thru-hike a major trail twice in one season, equivalent to "out-and-back day hikes"
• Yo-yo club, in association football, a frequently relegated and promoted club
• Yo-yo de-spin, a technique for slowing the spin of rockets
• yo-yo dieting, a phrase describing weight fluctuations experienced by dieters
• YOYO economics ("You're on Your Own" economics), a type of economic policy
• Yo-yo problem, an antipattern encountered in software development
• Yo-yo Tsuri, a type of Japanese water balloon

See also

• Jojo (disambiguation)
• Yo (disambiguation)