Checkers

checkers
    n 1: a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12
         pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the
         opponent's pieces [syn: {checkers}, {draughts}]
    

Draughts \Draughts\, n. pl.
   A game, now more commonly called {checkers}. See {Checkers}.
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   Note: {Polish draughts} is sometimes played with 40 pieces on
         a board divided into 100 squares. --Am. Cyc.
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Checkers \Check"ers\ (ch[e^]k"[~e]rz), n. pl. [See {Checher},
   v.]
   A game, called also {draughts}, played on a checkerboard by
   two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers)
   which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of
   the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
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120 Moby Thesaurus words for "checkers":
      Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery,
      association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball,
      bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano,
      billiards, bingo, bowling, bowls, boxing, cat, catch, charades,
      chess, climbing, crambo, cricket, croquet, curling, discus,
      dominoes, draughts, fencing, fishing, fives, football, ghost,
      gliding, go, golf, handball, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey,
      hopscotch, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, jacks,
      jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog,
      lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering,
      mumble-the-peg, ninepins, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, polo, pool,
      post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets,
      riding, roller skating, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning,
      sculling, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet,
      skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles,
      sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball,
      sports, squash, stickball, surfing, table tennis, tennis, tenpins,
      tent pegging, tetherball, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting,
      tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, trapshooting, tug of war, volleyball,
      water polo, waterskiing, wrestling