Keeping objects, most often balls, rings or clubs, in continuous motion through the air using one's hands, practiced as a hobby for the challenge and satisfaction of the skill itself rather than as a performing art. Hobbyist jugglers progress through a recognized ladder of patterns by object count and pattern complexity, often learning from local juggling clubs, conventions and an extensive shared body of notation and technique built up by the hobbyist community over more than a century.
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Contact juggling is classed as a branch of juggling and object manipulation, using rolling and balancing technique with acrylic balls rather than tosses.
Diabolo is one of the classic juggling props alongside balls, clubs and rings, and diabolo competitions are held within the juggling community's own conventions.
Poi spinning is grouped with juggling and other object-manipulation arts at juggling festivals and within juggling organizations, though it developed from a separate Maori tradition.
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Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.
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