checkers

IPA: tʃˈɛkɝz

(board games, US, Canada, in the singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.

Examples of "checkers" in Sentences

What’s true for checkers is also becoming true for poker.
EQ1 in its original form and early expansions) what checkers is to chess.
Oh I forgot to tell you guys and gals, he always kicks my *** in checkers the on line one.
Simple games of poker are certainly 'solvable' in the way that oh, say, checkers is solvable.
One of the job of fact checkers is to contact the concerned parties to get their perspective on the events.
The object of the game is to “bear off” all of your checkers from the backgammon board before your opponent.
Currently there are only four games sanctioned by the International Mind Sports Association: bridge, draughts also known as checkers, Go and chess.
After years of staff downsizing, eliminating editors and staff checkers from the payroll - publishers seem to be having a spate of personal fantasies making it to print as Truth.
Wal, I 'll say one thing for her; she draws the fire out o' Hepsy, an 'she 's 'bout the only livin' critter than can; but some nights when she 's ben inter our house a playin 'checkers or fox an' geese with the child'en, she 'd railly git Hepsy slicked down so that 't was kind o' comfortable bein 'with her.