Frisbee

William Russel Frisbie thought he was starting a pastry company when he bought a bakery in Bridgeport, Connecticut and renamed it the Frisbie Pie Company. He probably did not imagine that children…

Tossing a frisbee around is a classic pastime for all ages. It provides an entertaining outlet for exercise that requires very little skill. Frisbees come in all different shapes and sizes, and they…

The modern frisbee began life as a common pie tin. In the 1920s, students at Yale University recycled empty Frisbie Baking Company pie tins into flying objects. Immediately, a new form of recreation…

For a time, the distant, tiny world of Pluto was known as the solar system's ninth planet. That all changed in 2005, when the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a dwarf planet.…

Bottlenose dolphins can be identified from other dolphin species by the stubby beak. While the more common species of dolphin off the coasts of America, bottlenose dolphins appear around the world and…

Bottlenose dolphins are the most well known oceanic dolphins. They are extremely social animals that can travel in groups with as many as 1,000 members. Dolphins are highly intelligent, and they are…

For more than a century, the Frisbee has been a toy that has provided endless hours of amusement to people of all ages. It has even been woven into a sport, Ultimate Frisbee, which is a noncontact…

The bottlenose is the most well-known species of dolphin. Found worldwide in coastal waters and seen by millions of people in captivity at aquariums and dolphinariums, bottlenose dolphins have…

The Frisbee was developed in the 1930s and first manufactured under a different name in the 1940s by Fred Morrison . The flying disc did not acquire the name Frisbee until the invention was purchased…

Frisbee golf, often called disc golf, shares a few similarities to actual golf, but is its own unique game. Similarities include use of a stroke system, the lowest score wins at the end as well as the…

The sport of disc golf requires players to use skill, dexterity and course management in order to be successful. Being able to throw a variety of different shots displays all three of these skills,…

The only thing more fun than throwing a Frisbee is being able to do trick throws with it. One of the most amusing and yet easy Frisbee throws is from between the legs. By the time you are finished…

When it was first mass-produced, it was called a Pluto Platter. More than 50 years later, people are still of inventing more ways to have fun with their Frisbees. Regardless of what game you play with…