Meanings
plural fidget spinners
- A type of stress-relieving toy that is intended to be spun around in one's hand, and that generally consists of a bearing in the center of a design made from any of a variety of materials including brass, stainless steel, titanium, copper, and plastic.
If you're like many people and you absently take apart pens and put them back together, unbend paper clips, pick at the carpet or your hair, or idly fiddle with whatever is nearby, a fidget spinner can quietly focus your energy in a less destructive way.
2017, Cara Stevens, Fidget Spinner Tricks, Hacks & Mods […] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBNSynonyms: spinner
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of stress-relieving toy that is intended to be spun around in one's hand, and that generally consists of a bearing in the center of a design made from any of a variety of materials including brass, stainless steel, titanium, copper, and plastic.
Origin
Compound of fidget + spinner. Usage began in early 2017 as it skyrocketed in popularity, although the origin of the toy itself is disputed.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans vroeteltol
- vroeteltolstress-relieving toy
Catalan baldufa de mà
- baldufa de màstress-relieving toy
Chinese Cantonese 指尖陀螺, 手指陀螺
- 指尖陀螺stress-relieving toy
- 手指陀螺stress-relieving toy
Chinese Mandarin 指尖陀螺, 手指陀螺
- 指尖陀螺 (zhǐjiān tuóluó)stress-relieving toy
- 手指陀螺 (shǒuzhǐ tuóluó)stress-relieving toy
Finnish sormihyrrä, spinneri
- sormihyrrästress-relieving toy
- spinneristress-relieving toy
French hand spinner, fidget spinner
- hand spinnerstress-relieving toy
- fidget spinnerstress-relieving toy
- toupie à mainstress-relieving toy
German Fidgetspinner
- Fidgetspinnerstress-relieving toy
Indonesian pemintal gelisah, gasing tangan
- pemintal gelisahstress-relieving toy
- gasing tanganstress-relieving toy
Japanese ハンドスピナー, フィジェットスピナー
- ハンドスピナー (hando supinā)stress-relieving toy
- フィジェットスピナー (fijetto supinā)stress-relieving toy
Korean 피젯 스피너
- 피젯 스피너 (pijet seupineo)stress-relieving toy
Latvian grozāmgrābslis
- grozāmgrābslisstress-relieving toy
Malay gasing tangan
- gasing tanganstress-relieving toy
Polish fidget spinner
- fidget spinnerstress-relieving toy
Russian спиннер, фиджет-спиннер
- спиннер (spinner)stress-relieving toy
- фиджет-спиннер (fidžet-spinner)stress-relieving toy
Spanish spinner
- spinnerstress-relieving toy
Cite this entry
fidget spinner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidget%20spinner
“fidget spinner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidget%20spinner. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fidget spinner,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fidget%20spinner.
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