Lawn game
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A lawn game is any outdoor game that can be played on a lawn
. Many games that are traditionally played on a pitch
are marketed
as "lawn games" for home use in a front or back yard.
Common lawn games include:
Lawn
A lawn is an area of aesthetic and recreational land planted with grasses or other durable plants, which usually are maintained at a low and consistent height. Low ornamental meadows in natural landscaping styles are a contemporary option of a lawn...
. Many games that are traditionally played on a pitch
Pitch (sports)
A pitch is an open outdoor area for various activities. It is used in British and Australian English; the comparable term in American English is field...
are marketed
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
as "lawn games" for home use in a front or back yard.
Common lawn games include:
- HorseshoesHorseshoesHorseshoes is an outdoor game played between two people using four horseshoes and two throwing targets set in a sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 feet apart...
- Lawn dartsLawn dartsLawn darts is a lawn game for two players or teams. A lawn dart set usually includes four large darts and two targets. The game play and objective are similar to both horseshoes and darts. The darts are similar to the ancient Roman plumbata...
- CroquetCroquetCroquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport. It involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court.-History:...
- CornholeCornholeCornhole can refer to:*Cornhole, a game also known as Corn Toss or Bean Bag Toss.*A slang term for anus or anal sex...
- BocceBocceBocce is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire...
- BowlsBowlsBowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls so that they stop close to a smaller "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven...
- SholfSholfSholf is a game that is a cross between table shuffleboard and golf. Players take turns putting golf balls into scoring zones printed on a putting green.-Game play:...
- PetanquePétanquePétanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing inside a starting circle with both feet on the ground, to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet or jack. It is also sometimes called a bouchon or le petit...
- Ladder GolfLadder GolfLadder Golf is a trademarked and patented ladder ball lawn game manufactured by Ladder Golf, LLC., a San Diego, California based company.-Gameplay:...
- WashersWasher pitchingWashers is a game, similar to horseshoes, that involves two teams of two players that take turns tossing washers towards the washer box. In order to score, one must place a washer into the box, into the can that is within the box, or within one foot of the box...
- Kan-jamKan-jamKanJam is a flying disc game, played with a flying disc and two cans in which you deflect the disc into the can. The KanJam company is based in western New York.-Origin:...
- Flimsee
See also
- Ladder Toss
- MölkkyMölkkyMölkky is a Finnish throwing game invented by Tuoterengas company in 1996. It is reminiscent of kyykkä, a centuries old throwing game with Karelian roots. However, mölkky does not require as much physical strength as kyykkä, and is more suitable for everyone regardless of age and condition...
- Egg rollingEgg rollingEgg rolling, or an Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. Different nations have different versions of the game, usually played with hard-boiled, decorated eggs.- History :...
- KubbKubbKubb is a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden sticks at them. Kubb can be simply described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes...
- QuoitsQuoitsQuoits is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike . The sport of quoits encompasses several distinct variations.-The history of quoits:The history of quoits is disputed...
- SkittlesSkittles (sport)Skittles is an old European lawn game, a variety of bowling, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the United States, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom, the game remains a popular pub game in England and Wales, though it tends to be...
- Cherokee marblesCherokee marblesCherokee marbles , or five hole, is a traditional game among the Cherokee people of the United States.-The game:It is played, traditionally, with round balls made of stone, but now sometimes with standard billiard balls...
- CornholeCornholeCornhole can refer to:*Cornhole, a game also known as Corn Toss or Bean Bag Toss.*A slang term for anus or anal sex...
- Bottledrop