A riding toy, free from maintenance work like battery replacement and able to urge a rider to take exercise while preventing the rider from getting tired thereof, has one front wheel and two rear wheels that are provided rotatably on a body, a generating motor linked with the rear wheels via a power transmission mechanism, a rectifier bridge circuit rectifying an output current from the generating motor, a storage unit storing a direct current from the rectifier bridge circuit, button switches of a button group on the body or a handlebar, an output unit on the handlebar including a sound emitting device or a light emitting device and a control unit causing the light emitting device or the sound emitting device of the output unit to perform a predetermined operation in response to operation of the button switches based on a current supplied from the storage unit.