puppet

A doll of cloth or wood, which can be operated by a puppeteer by means of strings and cable or by wearing it as a glove.

If it's controlled with puppet strings, it's a marionette. If it's worn like a glove, it's a hand puppet.

Some puppets have proper names like Shanghai Doll or Pinocchio.

Examples

Hand puppet

Marionette

See also

• Marionette
• hand puppet
• finger puppet
• karakuri puppet (kind of like a wooden steampunk robot)
• shadow puppet
• sock puppet
• doll joints
• control bar
• puppet strings
• puppet rings
• puppet show

The following tags are aliased to this tag: puppets (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: finger_puppet, hand_puppet, and marionette (learn more).