Sentence examples for quoit from inspiring English sources

A rubber ring, or quoit, is thrown across a net.

Next I hike up the hill to discover the 5,000-year-old 5,000-year-old 5,000-year-olde-historic burial chamber of its kind in Europe - before going into the 13th-century Tinner's Arms, where Lawrence wrote the end of Women in Love.

In the past I have seen various bewildering team activities, such as passing a quoit backwards through a line of sack-wearing children jumping on balloons.

Johnston is forced to wear a series of ludicrous chapeaus, which make her look as if she were walking around with either a conch or a quoit on her head.

"This will be high-class dirt," Mr. Mason said, pronouncing "dirt" to rhyme with "quoit".

I climbed up the coastal path to view it all from the King's Quoit, a Neolithic burial chamber high above the bay.

Marbles, quoits, bat 'n' trap and shove ha'penny survive in pubs, and only there.

It combines lawn tennis and quoits.

It is thought that peasants in medieval Britain also adapted horseshoes for use in improvised games of quoits.

In addition to being rolled, hoops can be thrown (quoits), spun, or used as a target (basketball).

Horseshoe pitching may have derived from the game of quoits played by Roman officers during the Roman occupation of Britain (1st to 5th century).