Jumping jack (toy)

The jumping jack is a child's toy, a jointed doll usually made of wood or cardboard with movable arms and legs that can be moved by pulling cords.

History

The term " puppet " for the popular children's toy is evidenced in the Grimms' dictionary with text examples as early as the 16th century. In 1750, jumping jacks temporarily became a pastime for adults whose ridicule denouncing the encyclopedist. Widest distribution they found, when French and German Bilderbogen manufacturer (G. Kühn in Neuruppin, 1862 ) offering printed and colored cut-out sheet with the stick-on on cardboard items.

" Jumping Jack " is also a established by Carl Malß form of popular theater in Frankfurt. In several local farces in Hessian dialect, the author described it as a puppet master. 1832 and 1833 were on the stage the tracks " Mr. Hampel man or Landparthie to Königstein " (Frankfurter local sketch in four scenes ), " Mr. Hampel man in Diligence " ( Hampelmanniade in six images ) and " Mr. Hampel Man seeking a Logis " (Local - comedy performed in five images).

Transferred sense

In a figurative sense are colloquially and exaggerated a weak-willed and easily influenced by other people with jumping jacks. In the phrase " make the puppet " it is meant that one makes a fool of himself by contracting other on the proposals. Or fidget around fidget The verb or the insult puppet for children struggling expresses that one silly or surprising and clumsy moves, that makes movements like a puppet.

A gymnastic exercise that describes the above-mentioned movement of simultaneous Unfolding and hitting the extremities, is, it will be executed rhythmically, described as a jumping jack. However, a jumping jack can also be a sports exercise in his arms one arises when high jumping with high takes and the come down at shoulder width with your feet.

Hampelmann handball game

When Handball match the movement of the goalkeeper " Marionette " is - or " a puppet making " - called when he tries to cover as all four corners of the handball goal at an opponent's throw by opening the legs and feet. The puppet is used in handball goalkeepers usually in one-on- one situations, such as the seven-meter throw or quick counter attack.