Marble (toy)
A marble is a small toy often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They have different sizes. Most often, they are about 13 mm (1⁄2 in) in diameter, but they may be less than 1 mm (1⁄30 in) to over 8 cm (3 in), while some glass marbles for art are over 30 cm (12 in) wide. Marbles can be used for games called marbles. They are often collected, both for fun and for their colors. In the North of England, the toys and the game are called "taws", with larger taws being called bottle washers after the use of a marble in Codd-neck bottles, which were often found for play. These toys can be used to make marble runs, a form of art, or they can be used in marble races, a kind of race using marbles.
Marble (toy) Media
- Marble collector - Flickr - smkybear.jpg
Macro Mondays - Work Items I'm a special education teacher - I push a lot of papers, staple them together, write tons of notes on a green board and in the end - I help fill up marble bags so my kids have a fuller life after public school.
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Children playing the marble game 'kancha' near Shambhunath Temple, Nepal
- Karl Witkowski - Game of Marbles.jpg
Game of Marbles, Karol D. Witkowski
- Marble play, a game of India.jpg
An illustration demonstrating the position one must take when shooting a marble in Indian marble games: the finger that is held back has the marble held against its tip, with the marble launched upon release of the finger.
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A clay marble, found in a field in the East Midlands
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An orange and white toothpaste marble
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Glass marbles from Indonesia
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A green glass marble in India
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