shuffleboard
Americannoun
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a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
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the board or marked surface, as on a floor or deck, on which this game is played.
noun
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a game in which players push wooden or plastic discs with a long cue towards numbered scoring sections marked on a floor, esp a ship's deck
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the marked area on which this game is played
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of shuffleboard
First recorded in 1525–35; alteration of earlier shove board
Example Sentences
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They have shuffleboard, pool tables and really good wings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
It also has many traditional bar features, including large TV screens for watching sport, a dancefloor, darts, pool and shuffleboard.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2024
“I’d play in the park, go for boat rides, take naps. There was this whole area on the 7th Street side where older people played shuffleboard, backgammon, gin, all kinds of card games.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
Bethany: It’s more luxury — if puzzling luxury — with shuffleboard, pool and Jenga, too, all adjacent to a capacious bar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
From then on we played a lot of shuffleboard.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
The Greene King boss said some of his pubs were expanding into competitive socialising using electronic dartboards and shuffleboards to attract and maintain customers who are after an "elevated experience".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
One exhibit will feature game equipment like outdoor shuffleboards and even a 17-by-30-foot, human-sized pool table in which people get inside and kick the balls into different pockets.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
His 2,500-square-foot bar and restaurant has a heated patio and two bars, including one in the mezzanine with pool tables, shuffleboards and other tabletop games.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
After the ballroom’s closure, the building was converted for use as a Gov-Mart department store, then into an exhibition warehouse for a business selling pool tables, shuffleboards and jukeboxes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Upon the roof was a kind of observatory, or look-out, simply furnished with billiard-tables and shuffleboards, while the implements for various other games lay about on small tables, with telescopes on stands, and comfortable arm-chairs.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin
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