quoits
- n a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
- n game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
- Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white-jacketed stewards.
- Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp.
- The President and other members of the party passed the time as best possiblequoits, movies in the evenings and pipefuls of tobacco.