Skittles

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

skittles
    n 1: a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball
         down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins [syn:
         {ninepins}, {skittles}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Skittles \Skit"tles\, n. pl. [Of Scand. origin. [root]159. See
   {Shoot}, v. t., and cf. {Shuttle}, {Skit}, v. t.]
   An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing
   wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
   [1913 Webster]