chinese checkers

noun

A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.

Meanings

chinese checkers1

nounchinese checkers (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Chinese checkers.

Chinese checkers2

nounChinese checkers (uncountable)

alternative US Chinese Checkers · alternative US chinese checkers · alternative UK Chinese chequers

  1. USuncountableA board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
    1 more example

    This is no longer a clue. It's a game. You may have just gotten checkmate, but we're playing Chinese checkers, and as my old friend Confucius say; the hunter has become the hunter-ed. The chaser has become the chosed. Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked. It seems the portrait has painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed. But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby.

    2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)

Chinese Checkers3

nounChinese Checkers (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of Chinese checkers.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Catalan dames xineses
  • dames xinesesboard game
Chinese Cantonese 跳棋, 波子棋
  • 跳棋board game
  • 波子棋board game
Chinese Mandarin 跳棋
  • 跳棋 (tiàoqí)board game
Finnish kiinanšakki, tähtihalma
  • kiinanšakkiboard game
  • tähtihalmaboard game
French dames chinoises
  • dames chinoisesboard game
German Halma
  • Halmaboard game
Icelandic kínaskák
  • kínaskákboard game
Irish táiplis Shíneach
  • táiplis Shíneachboard game
Japanese ダイヤモンドゲーム
  • ダイヤモンドゲーム (daiyamondogēmu)board game
Polish trylma
  • trylmaboard game
Russian кита́йские ша́шки, ха́лма
  • кита́йские ша́шки (kitájskije šáški)board game
  • ха́лма (xálma)board game
  • ха́льма (xálʹma)board game
Spanish tablero chino, damas chinas
  • tablero chinoboard game
  • damas chinasboard game
Swedish kinaschack
  • kinaschackboard game
Cite this entry
APA

chinese checkers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chinese%20checkers

MLA

“chinese checkers.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chinese%20checkers. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chinese checkers,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chinese%20checkers.

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