Answer:
What gets broken when you don't hold it?
What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?
You could do this to a motion, see it on a watch, or place this in a race.
What is not a ball but yet a sphere, and holds all lands and people year after year?
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
Cycle Cycle Cycle.