Hoop rolling

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File:Ganymede with cockerel and hoop - Louvre.jpg
Ganymede rolling a hoop and bearing aloft a cockerel - a love gift from Zeus (in pursuit, on obverse of vase).
Attic red-figure crater, 500-490 BCE; Painter of Berlin; Louvre, Paris)

Child's game in which a large hoop is propelled by means of a rolling stick. It is known to have been played in early antiquity, as seen on Greek vase paintings from ca. 500 BCE. It is still found - albeit rarely - as a feature of children's street culture all over the world.