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a circle that turns standing still into a full-body workout you can't stop laughing through
means A large lightweight ring, usually plastic, that you spin around your waist, hips, or limbs by rhythmic body motion — for play or exercise.
from A compound of "hula," the Hawaiian dance whose swaying hips the spinning motion resembles, and plain old "hoop" (an Old English word, hop, for a circular band). Twirling hoops are ancient — children in many cultures rolled and spun them for centuries — but the catchy name and the plastic craze belong to the mid-20th century, when a California toy company trademarked "Hula-Hoop" and sold them by the tens of millions. The trademark gave us the name; the hips gave it the "hula."
- ancient roots
- Egyptians spun reed hoops 3,000 years ago
- name origin
- Hawaiian hula dance inspired the 1950s label
- sales explosion
- 25 million sold in four months in 1958
- world record
- someone spun over 200 hoops at once
- calorie burn
- rivals boot camp at 400 per hour
wham-o hula hoop — toy introduced in 1958, sold over 100 million units in first two years
spinning hoop world record — gueorgui marjanyan spun 200 hula hoops simultaneously in 2021