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yo-yo is a toy.
Yo-yo may also refer to:
People
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Yo-Yo (rapper) (born 1971), American hip hop artist
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Yo-Yo Davalillo (1931–2013), Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
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Yo-Yo Ma (born 1955), Chinese-American cellist
Art, entertainment, and media
Music
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The Yo-Yos, a British rock band
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''Yo-Yo'' (album), a 1996 album by The Choirboys
Songs
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"Yo-Yo" (Billy Joe Royal song), a 1966 pop song, also covered by The Osmonds
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"Yo-Yo" (Joey Moe song), a 2009 pop song
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"Yo-Yo" (Nicola Roberts song), a 2012 electropop song
* "Yo-Yo", a 1981 rock song by The Kinks from ''
Give the People What They Want''
* "Yo-Yo", a 2001 dance-pop song by Mandy Moore from ''
Mandy Moore''
Other
Science and technology
Air and space
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Aero Eli Serviza Yo-Yo 222
The Aero Eli Servizi Yo-Yo 222 (sometimes written YoYo) is an Italian helicopter designed and produced by Aero Eli Servizi of L'Aquila. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of ...
, an Italian helicopter
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Yo-yo de-spin
A yo-yo de-spin mechanism is a device used to reduce the spin of satellites, typically soon after launch. It consists of two lengths of cable with weights on the ends. The cables are wrapped around the final stage and/or satellite, in the manne ...
, a technique for slowing the spin of rockets
* Yo-Yo, a
type of aircraft maneuver
Other
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Yo-Yo (ride)
The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, waver swinger, Chair-O-Planes, Dodo or swinger) is an amusement ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the seats are suspended from the ro ...
or swing ride, a type of amusement park ride
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Yo-yo dieting
Weight cycling, also known as yo-yo dieting, is the repeated loss and gain of weight, resembling the up-down motion of a yo-yo. Many dieters are initially successful in the pursuit of weight loss but unsuccessful in maintaining the loss long-term ...
, a phrase describing weight fluctuations experienced by dieters
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Yo-yo problem In software development, the yo-yo problem is an anti-pattern that occurs when a programmer has to read and understand a program whose inheritance graph is so long and complicated that the programmer has to keep flipping between many different cla ...
, an antipattern encountered in software development
Other uses
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Yo-yo (algorithm) Yo-Yo is a distributed algorithm aimed at minimum finding and leader election in generic connected undirected graph
Graph may refer to:
Mathematics
*Graph (discrete mathematics), a structure made of vertices and edges
**Graph theory, the study ...
, a distributed algorithm
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Yo-yo club, in association football, a frequently relegated and promoted club
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Yo-yo Tsuri
A water balloon or water bomb is a balloon, often made of latex rubber, filled with water. Water balloons are used in a summer pastime of cooling off through water balloon fights. Water balloons are also popular for celebrations, including celebr ...
, a type of Japanese water balloon
* Yo-Yo, a sweet biscuit made in Australia by
Arnott's Biscuits
Arnott's Biscuits Limited is an Australian producer of biscuits and snack food. Founded in 1865, they are the largest producer of biscuits in Australia and a subsidiary of KKR.
History
In 1847, Scottish immigrant William Arnott opened a ...
* Yo-yo, a Venezuelan food made with
cooking bananas
Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus ''Musa'' whose fruits are generally used in cooking. They may be eaten ripe or unripe and are generally starchy. Many cooking bananas are referred to as plantains (/ˈplæntɪn/, /plænˈteɪn/ ...
See also
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Yoyo (disambiguation)
Yoyo or YOYO may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Characters
* hoops&Yoyo, a pair of animated characters featured on Hallmark Cards
* Yoyo the Dodo, a character in the 1938 animated short film ''Porky in Wackyland''
* Yoyo, a character ...
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Jojo (disambiguation) Jojo is a given name, surname, nickname and stage name of several people and fictional characters.
Jojo, JoJo or Jo Jo may also refer to:
Music
* ''JoJo'' (album), by JoJo, 2004
* "Jojo" (Boz Scaggs song), 1980
* "Jojo", a song by Jacques Brel ...
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Yo (disambiguation)
''Yo'' is a slang interjection, commonly associated with North American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s.
Although often used as a greeting and often deployed at the ...
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