Skip-It
It's from 1990, before you were born.
- Maker
- Tiger Toys / Hasbro
- Type
- Activity toy
- Debuted
- 1990
- Note
- Later versions counted your skips
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About
As of 2026, it's 36 years old.
Skip-It hit its stride around 1990: a plastic hoop you looped around one ankle, attached to a swinging ball you'd whip in circles and hop over with your other foot, again and again, in a hypnotic one-legged rhythm. Later versions added a counter on the ball so you could obsessively track your skips.
It was a genuine cardio workout disguised as a toy, leaving a generation with vivid memories of frantic driveway skipping and the occasional self-inflicted ankle whack. The commercial jingle ('it's got a counter on it!') is permanently stuck in '90s heads.
Repetitive, surprisingly athletic, and ankle-bruising, Skip-It is the toy that turned hopping over a spinning ball into a backyard endurance sport.
