Crossword clues for quoits
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., coytes, "game played by throwing quoits;" see quoit.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of quoit English)Category:English plurals 2 (context uncountable English) A competitive game in which players throw rings, aiming to land them over vertical sticks.
WordNet
n. a game in which quoits or horseshoes are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it [syn: horseshoes]
Wikipedia
Quoits (koits, kwoits, kwaits) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin). The sport of quoits encompasses several distinct variations.
Usage examples of "quoits".
Scarecrow and Jack Pumpkinhead were still playing at quoits in the courtyard when the game was interrupted by the abrupt entrance of the Royal Army of Oz, who came flying in without his hat or gun, his clothes in sad disarray and his long beard floating a yard behind him as he ran.
Poogie, the Bear, and the Goat played endless games of quoits on the deck, and argued constantly about the rules, especially when the Goat was losing.
She refuses the swimming pool, the quoits, the badminton, the endless, pointless games.
I suggest we settle this at Quoits, Sir, Megs at forty Feet, Ringers only.
Our spirits have not flagged, as, thanks to various small games such as pitch-and-toss, running races when the ship was rolling, quoits, and cards, we have not found time unbearably long.
Majesty continued to throw the quoits as coolly as if no danger threatened his throne, but the Pumpkinhead, having caught sight of Tip, ambled toward the boy as fast as his wooden legs would go.
He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled.