skiddles
English
Etymology
Blend of skid + skittles?
Noun
skiddles (uncountable)
- (dated) A game played on ice in which sticks are thrown at pins to knock them over.
- 1934, Arthur H. Lawson, Homemade Games: How to Make and Play Indoor and Outdoor Games (page 83)
- Probably you'd prefer playing Skiddles in such a way that there is a possibility of winning the game, or at least ending it! If that is so you'll have to change the real rules a little.
- 1934, Arthur H. Lawson, Homemade Games: How to Make and Play Indoor and Outdoor Games (page 83)
- Alternative form of skittles
- 1935, The Camping Magazine (volumes 7-8, page 24)
- If there is a need or desire for more games or play equipment in the camp, here is the book that tells how the campers can make them — table tennis, shuffleboard, paddle tennis, box hockey, skiddles, dart baseball, exo, and scores of others
- 1997, Michael McKenzie, Arrowhead Home of the Chiefs
- Several antique games, such as a skiddles table, occupy an upstairs anteroom.
- 1935, The Camping Magazine (volumes 7-8, page 24)