Having a talent for hula hooping could be more down to your body shape than your technique, according to a new study that ...

The gyrations of hoop-slinging robots reveal that hourglass-shaped objects are best at keeping a hoop in the air.

Some version of the Hula-Hoop has been around for millennia, but the popular plastic version was introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s and quickly became a fad. Now, researchers have taken a closer ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: "What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?" and "Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?

But have you ever wondered how a hula hoop stays aloft against the pull of gravity? Wonder no more. A team of researchers at New York University have investigated the forces involved as a hoop rotates ...

The physics behind maintaining a perfect spin ... After analyzing the results, researchers found that getting a hula hoop up and going could be achieved by any of their “body shape” models.

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. Academic math, you’d probably assume, is a kind of dry topic, filled with tedious equations and ...

Upon entry, throw the hula hoop into the field. This ensures the location is picked at random, and when done at least five times should show an adequate representation of what’s in the field.

Of all the things TikTok has made me buy over the years, a weighted hula hoop is probably the most unexpected. As I’m sure you all know, TikTok, or more specifically, FitTok, is full of fitness ...