Meanings
- pluralplural of quoit
- uncountableA competitive game in which players throw rings, aiming to land them over vertical sticks.
And now they were ready to set forth by twos and threes into the parks and pleasaunces, some to take their pleasure about the fair gardens and fishponds, some to hunt wild game among the wooded hills, some to disport themselves at quoits or tennis or riding at the ring or martial exercises; […]
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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quoits. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quoits
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