spinning top

Questions about spinning top

What does spinning top mean?

spinning top means "a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin".

What is another word for spinning top?

Close synonyms include top, whirligig, teetotum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spinning top a common word?

spinning top is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.