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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.
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 ...
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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.
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
The 2024 Kentucky Derby field is almost set. Only one qualifying race remains to help set the field for the 2024 Kentucky Derby: The Grade 3, $400,000 Stonestreet Lexington Stakes — which will ...
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