The Frisbee is named after a company that sold pies.

Quick Scoop

  • The name “Frisbee” comes from the Frisbie Pie Company of Connecticut, whose metal pie tins were tossed around for fun by college students.
  • Students threw the empty tins and shouted “Frisbie!”, and this casual game later inspired the name of the plastic flying disc toy.
  • When the toy company Wham-O marketed its flying disc in the 1950s, it adopted the student nickname—changing the spelling to “Frisbee”—but the origin still traces back to a pie seller.

Answer: It was named after a company that sold pies. Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.