QUOITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quoits mean? 

• QUOITS (noun)
  The noun QUOITS has 1 sense:

1. a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it

  Familiarity information: QUOITS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUOITS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

horseshoes; quoits

Hypernyms ("quoits" is a kind of...):

outdoor game (an athletic game that is played outdoors)

Domain member category:

leaner ((horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake)

ringer ((horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg)

 Context examples 

They were never quiet, ceaselessly playing deck-quoits, tossing rings, promenading, or rushing to the rail with loud cries to watch the leaping porpoises and the first schools of flying fish.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)