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Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 feet (12 m) apart.
Polish horseshoes (also called Spanish horseshoes, frisbeener in the midwest, [1] French darts in Virginia, [2] frisnok in Manitoba, [3] and beersbee elsewhere in Canada [4]) is an outdoor game played between two teams of two people using a frisbee, two glass bottles or cans, and stakes, ski poles or hiking sticks hammered into the ground.
Quoits (/ ˈ k ɔɪ t s / or / ˈ k w ɔɪ t s /) is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike (sometimes called a hob, mott or pin). The game of quoits encompasses several distinct variations.
The shortened distance that will come with this venue change — going from the traditional 1 1/2 miles at Belmont Park to 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga — marks the first time the Belmont Stakes will ...
Horseshoe map, in chaos theory; Horseshoe moustache; Horseshoe sandwich, an open-faced sandwich found regionally in the Midwest; Horseshoe theory, in political science; Horseshoe vortex, simplified model of the vortex system in the airflow around a wing; Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), also called horseshoe u, a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet
Mar. 12—EDWARDSVILLE — The "horseshoe crew" recently celebrated its 26-year anniversary. Robert "Shotsy" Shotwell started the league and he continues to be the ring leader of the "shoe crew."
The game has many variations, and may be called washer pitching, washer toss, washers, huachas or washoes (which is based on the similarity to horseshoes). [ 1 ] The object of the game is to earn points by tossing metal washers, usually around 2 inches (51 mm) in diameter, and 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.2 mm) thick, toward a hole, usually denoted by a can ...
Muckers, also known as ring toss (not to be confused with the ring toss carnival game) or circle horseshoes, is an outdoor game, commonly played at summer camps, in which players take turns throwing circular rings at a stick, standing about one foot high. It is a spin-off of Quoits [1] [2] and the popular horseshoes.