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Frisbee

1957, trademark registered 1959 by Wham-O Company; the prototype was modeled on pie tins from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, made by the Frisbie Bakery of Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S. Middlebury College students began tossing them around in the 1930s (though Yale and Princeton also claim to have discovered their aerodynamic qualities).\nThirteen years ago the Wham-O Manufacturing Company of San Gabriel, Calif., ... brought out the first Frisbee. Wham-O purchased the rights from a Los Angeles building inspector named Fred Morrison, who in turn had been inspired by the airworthy pie tins of the Frisbie Bakery in Bridgeport, Conn. (which went out of business in March of 1958). He changed the spelling to avoid legal problems. ["Sports Illustrated," Aug. 3, 1970]\nThe family name is attested in English records from 1226, from a place name in Leicestershire (Frisby on the Wreak), attested from 1086, from Old Danish, meaning "farmstead or village of the Frisians" (Old Norse Frisa, genitive plural of Frisr; see Frisian). Also see by (prep.).

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frisbee

n. (alternative form of Frisbee English) vb. (alternative form of Frisbee English)

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Frisbee

A frisbee (sometimes called a flying disc) is a disc-shaped gliding toy or sporting item that is generally plastic and roughly in diameter with a lip, used recreationally and competitively for throwing and catching, for example, in flying disc games. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while spinning.

In 1997 Chris Shortreed won the world championships of Frisbee, only to be taken out by Michael Hall

Frisbees are thrown and caught for free-form (freestyle) recreation and as part of many flying disc games. A wide range of frisbees variants are available commercially. Disc golf discs are usually smaller but denser and tailored for particular flight profiles to increase/decrease stability and distance. The longest recorded disc throw is by Simon Lizotte with a distance of 263.2 meters. Disc dog sports use relatively slow flying discs made of more pliable material to better resist a dog's bite and prevent injury to the dog. Flying rings are also available; they typically travel significantly farther than any traditional flying disc. There are also illuminated discs meant for nighttime play — they are made of a phosphorescent plastic or contain battery-powered light-emitting diodes or chemiluminescent glowing sticks. Others whistle when they reach a certain velocity in flight.

Lift is generated in the same way as a traditional airfoil. The rotating frisbee has a nearly vertical angular momentum vector, stabilizing its angle of attack via gyroscopic action. If the disc were not spinning, it would crash to pitch. When the disc is spinning, however, aerodynamic torque instead leads to precess about the spin axis, causing its trajectory to curve to the left or the right. Most discs are designed to be aerodynamically stable so that this roll is accurate for a fairly broad range of velocities and rates of spin. Many disc golf discs, however, are intentionally designed to be unstable. Higher rates of spin lead to more stability, and, for a given rate of spin, there is generally a range of velocities that are stable. Even a slight deformation in a disc (called a "taco," which in extreme cases looks like a taco shell) can cause negative effects when throwing long range. A disk can be checked for these deformations by holding it horizontally at eye level and looking at the rim while slowly turning it.

The term frisbee, often used to generically describe all flying discs, is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company. Though such use is not encouraged by the company, the common use of the name as a generic term has put the trademark in jeopardy; accordingly, many "Frisbee" games are now known as "disc" games, like Ultimate or disc golf.

Frisbee (ride)

The frisbee is a type of pendulum amusement ride featuring a circular gondola that rotates as it swings back and forth. Riders are seated on the gondola facing inward or outward depending on the model.

Frisbee (album)

Released in 2002, Frisbee is the fourth studio album from the Venezuelan Latin rock band Caramelos de Cianuro. Being very different from their previous albums, this one shows a great deal of musical maturity and an internationalization of their sounds, not being anymore just a Venezuelan band, but one known beyond their country's borders.

Frisbee joins the toughness of rock with the subtlety of pop, thanks to the influence of producer Enrique Gonzalez Müller, who has worked with bands like Nine Inch Nails, Joe Satriani and The Dave Matthews Band, and their willingness to accept his instructions when playing their instruments.

Frisbee (sculpture)

Frisbee, is a public artwork by American artist Patrick Villiers Farrow, located on the Middlebury College campus center green, in front of Monroe Hall in Middlebury, Vermont, United States. The overall dimensions of this bronze sculpture are tall, long, and wide. It is attached to an underground concrete foundation. The sculpture was cast by Agros Art Casting Foundry, Brewster, New York and dedicated in 1989.

Frisbee (TV channel)

Frisbee is an Italian TV channel marketed towards boys and owned by Discovery Communications. Its branding is "Channel of Heroes". The head office is located in Rome.

Frisbee was launched by Switchover Media in June 2010.

Most of the channel's programming were acquired from Disney’s library such that for the first few years, the channel would not need to acquire any new programming. Frisbee's top drawing programs for the first few months were Transformers, Spider-Man, Megaman and Sonic.

Usage examples of "frisbee".

Retaining racks on another held duckpins, Frisbees, hula hoops, and handballs.

After we developed the name and graphic identity for the Quantrex line of products, we placed it on hats, shirts, Frisbees, balloons .

Helen kept Mary beside her while I roamed the plain gathering the brittle, prickly limbs of gall acacias and the whorly, friable Frisbees of dried elephant dung.

All over the island children played Frisbee and baseball, while clambakes steamed under their blankets of seaweed and canvas, and backyard grills sent up clouds of acrid smoke.

So now the pictures were owned by the moneymen, and the villa, once the country hideaway of the Florentine nobility, was overrun by students playing with their Frisbees on the lawns.

So that even as Herbie rested, feeling slightly queasy from the executions, the dead ants were replaced at the sugarwater splashes by vigorous live ants, and in no time the busy black circles threatened to become as large as small Frisbees.

Most of the surfers were out on the beach playing Frisbee by the light of torches that stuck out of the sand at angles like drunken trees.

As if to accentuate the collegiate atmosphere, two longhaired hippies hurled a Frisbee back and forth while enjoying Mahler's Fourth Symphony blaring from a dorm window.

Now, though, he simply looks across the street, letting his eyes move slowly from the E-Z Stop to the next building up, from that one to the one where the kids were playing Frisbee when he turned on to the street, and then on to the one directly opposite them, the one where Jackson must have gone to ground when the shooting got too hot.

Guess he’s graduated from killer Frisbees, she noted acerbically, recalling Seven’s description of the deadly chakrams Khan had employed in Moscow a few years back.

Two Frisbees and what looks like a disembowelled ring of Frisbee float back and forth along this ridge, dreamily floating back and forth, sometimes dipping below the ridge and lost, for a moment, to the specular vision of Tine.

Dave tosses the Frisbee to Susi Geller and then takes the Shopper when Gary flips it to him.

On the other hand, it was possible that the trapped Am-folk were not a close harmony Sunday School set whose idea of letting their hair down was to play frisbee with their haloes.

It was a science experiment where you made a ring out of a wire clothes hanger and tossed it like a Frisbee.

A gigantic, dish-shaped object lay in the street just ahead, and Eddie's overstrained mind, perhaps cued by the classical buildings on either side of them, produced an image of Jove and Thor playing Frisbee.