whipping top vs spinning top

whipping top and spinning top both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
whipping top	Yes	No	No	No
spinning top	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, spinning top is a hypernym of whipping top; that is, spinning top is a word with a broader meaning than whipping top:

whipping top: a top that is spun by whipping
spinning top: a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin

Other hypernyms of whipping top include teetotum, top, whirligig.

whipping top (noun)	spinning top (noun)
a top that is spun by whipping	a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin