checkers
/ˈtʃɛkərz/
noun
- A board game for two players, played on an 8x8 board with 12 pieces each, where players move pieces diagonally and capture opponent's pieces by jumping over them.
- The park has outdoor tables with checkerboards painted on them for playing checkers.
- My grandfather taught me how to play checkers when I was six years old.
- She won three games of checkers in a row against her brother.
- The playing pieces used in the game of checkers.
- He carefully stacked the checkers back into the box after the game.
- The red checkers were all on one side of the board, and the black ones on the other.
- I need to buy a new set of checkers because I lost a few pieces.
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