quoits

British

/ kɔɪts /

plural noun

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

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quoits

There were games of deck quoits and bridge.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2014

Enthusiastic cameramen, having pictured the Governor golfing, wished him to pose clutching a tennis racquet, bestriding a horse, pitching quoits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Students found time to start a literary society, publish a magazine, and indulge in diversions that met with faculty approval: boating, fishing, wicket and quoits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile last week the Metropolitan pitched débuts like quoits, one or more every night: Rose Bampton, a comely, full-voiced contralto from Buffalo, sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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