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 [+]Loading...["Match of the Day (novel)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)"], AUDIO: Lords of the Red Planet [+]Loading...["Lords of the Red Planet (audio story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Helicon Prime (audio story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["The Claws of Axos (TV story)"]) On Silurian Earth, a yo-yo was found in the pockets of the cloak on the Third Doctor's body. (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Loading...["Blood Heat (novel)"])
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 [+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"]) he apparently used it primarily for fun. His skill with the yo-yo appeared to increase over time. (TV: The Android Invasion [+]Loading...["The Android Invasion (TV story)"], The Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"])
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's "magic". (TV: The Robots of Death [+]Loading...["The Robots of Death (TV story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["The Romance of Crime (novel)"])
The Sixth Doctor took a yo-yo out of his pocket while looking for a piece of wire. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])
The Twelfth Doctor had a yellow yo-yo. While on the Moon, he used it to inspect irregularities in gravity and to save Courtney. (TV: Kill the Moon [+]Loading...["Kill the Moon (TV story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor later tried to use it 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 [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Died (TV story)"])
