quoits

/ kɔɪts /

plural noun

1. usually functioning as singular a game in which quoits are tossed at a stake in the ground in attempts to encircle it

Example Sentences

In the 14th century, quoits, a game in which a metal disc is aimed at a wooden peg was considered so diverting that King Richard II banned the general public from playing it.

From New York Times

They used to play quoits in the road with four big steel washers they’d found in a hardware store but these were gone with everything else.

From Literature

The Harvard psychologist Jerome Frank asked people to play a game of quoits—you throw rings onto a stick, as in an amusement-park test of skill.

From The New Yorker

There were games of deck quoits and bridge.

From BBC

There was a royal Punch & Judy; beach games like skittles and quoits and a stone shelter built in the 1860s, known as the Queen's Alcove, where she would sit and survey the view.

From The Guardian