Checkers

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Draughts \Draughts\, n. pl.
     A game, now more commonly called {checkers}. See {Checkers}.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: {Polish draughts} is sometimes played with 40 pieces on
           a board divided into 100 squares. --Am. Cyc.


           [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Checkers \Check"ers\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rz), n. pl. [See {Checher},
     v.]
     A game, called also {draughts}, played on a checkerboard by
     two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers)
     which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of
     the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  checkers
       n : a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces;
           the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's
           pieces [syn: {draughts}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "checkers":
     Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery,
     association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball,
     bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano,
     billiards, bingo, bowling, bowls, boxing, cat, catch, charades,
     chess, climbing, crambo, cricket, croquet, curling, discus,
     dominoes, draughts, fencing, fishing, fives, football, ghost,
     gliding, go, golf, handball, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey,
     hopscotch, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, jacks,
     jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog,
     lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering,
     mumble-the-peg, ninepins, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, polo, pool,
     post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets,
     riding, roller skating, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning,
     sculling, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet,
     skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles,
     sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball,
     sports, squash, stickball, surfing, table tennis, tennis, tenpins,
     tent pegging, tetherball, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting,
     tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, trapshooting, tug of war, volleyball,
     water polo, waterskiing, wrestling