Jumping jack

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What Wikipedia says

The jumping jack is a jointed, flat wooden figure, a cross between a puppet and a paper doll that is considered a mechanical toy. The figure's joints are connected to a pull string that causes the arms and legs to move up and down when the string is pulled and released.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Jumping jack (toy)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: John Leech, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.