Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible. [...] [H]e would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk.
A craft activity done by intricately braiding thin colored plastic lines to make patterns, or the product of such a craft.
200607, Melissa J. Morgan, Natalie's Secret, ABDO, →ISBN, page 48:
It's lanyard. It's a camp tradition. You'll have about a million lanyard key chains by the time the summer is over.
2008, Natalie Angier, The Canon, page 58:
A few lousy days at Camp Minnehaha spent extracting oar splinters from your palms and taking group lanyard lessons under the full noonday sun.