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Yo-yo

A yo-yo was a round toy which was spun up and down on a string.

While at the Time Lord Academy, the First Doctor would skip classes to practice yo-yos and juggling. (PROSE: Match of the Day [+]Chris Boucher, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).)

When the Second Doctor visited the Panjistri homeworld, he had a yo-yo in his pocket, something which was also present on his visit to Gandor. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse [+]Nigel Robinson, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991)., AUDIO: Lords of the Red Planet [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Second Doctor gave Mindy Voir a yo-yo, which Jamie McCrimmon had won in an arcade game, in exchange for signing his copy of one of her albums. (AUDIO: Helicon Prime [+]Jake Elliott, The Companion Chronicles (Big Finish Productions, 2007).)

The Third Doctor, realising that the Time Lords had programmed his TARDIS to always return to Earth, compared himself to "some kind of a galactic yo-yo". (TV: The Claws of Axos [+]Bob Baker and Dave Martin, Doctor Who season 8 (BBC1, 1971).) On Silurian Earth, a yo-yo was found in the pockets of the cloak on the Third Doctor's body. (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).)

The Doctor's fourth incarnation was the one who most frequently kept a yo-yo on his person. Although he once used it to test local gravity, (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975).) he apparently used it primarily for fun. His skill with the yo-yo appeared to increase over time. (TV: The Android Invasion [+]Terry Nation, Doctor Who season 13 (BBC1, 1975)., The Brain of Morbius [+]Robin Bland, Doctor Who season 13 (BBC1, 1976).)

Leela spun the Doctor's yo-yo on his instruction, not realising he intended it to be fun, but rather believing it was part of the TARDIS' "magic". (TV: The Robots of Death [+]Chris Boucher, Doctor Who season 14 (BBC1, 1977).)

Romana II once used the Doctor's yo-yo to test local gravity, and performed a complex figure-eight with it. (PROSE: The Romance of Crime [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

The Sixth Doctor took a yo-yo out of his pocket while looking for a piece of wire. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 22 (BBC1, 1985).)

It took Ace two weeks and "tons" of peer pressure to learn to use a yo-yo. She later traded her yo-yo to some children on Heaven for a Hoothi spore they had found. (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).)

At the end of his life, the Seventh Doctor had a gold yo-yo on his person. Chang Lee stole the yo-yo, along with the rest of the Doctor's possessions, from Walker General Hospital. He later returned the property to the newly-regenerated Eighth Doctor. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

While on the Moon, the Twelfth Doctor used a yo-yo to inspect irregularities in gravity and to save Courtney. (TV: Kill the Moon [+]Peter Harness, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014).)

The Twelfth Doctor later tried to use a yo-yo to impress a Viking village into believing he was Odin, quoting Clarke's Law. According to Clara Oswald, this was something that the Doctor did a lot to get them out of tricky situations. (TV: The Girl Who Died [+]Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).)

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