a game in which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg, the object being to encircle it or come as close to it as possible
1388, "curling stone," perhaps from O.Fr. coite "flat stone" (with which the game was originally played), lit. "cushion," variant of coilte (see quilt). Quoits were among the games prohibited by Edward III and Richard II to encourage archery. In ref. to a heavy flat iron ring (and the tossing game played with it) it is recorded from c.1440.
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"She refuses the swimming pool, the quoits, the badminton, the endless, pointless games."
- Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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