Chinese checkers

See also: chinese checkers and Chinese Checkers

English

Alternative forms

• Chinese Checkers (US spelling)
• chinese checkers (US spelling)
• Chinese chequers (UK spelling)

Noun

Chinese checkers (uncountable) (American spelling)

1. A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
   • 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):

     This is no longer a clue. It's a game. You may have just gotten checkmate, but we're playing Chinese checkers, and as my old friend Confucius say; the hunter has become the hunter-ed. The chaser has become the chosed. Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked. It seems the portrait has painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed. But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby.

Translations

board game

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 跳棋 (tiu³ kei^4-2), 波子棋 (bo¹ zi² kei^4-2)

  Mandarin: 跳棋 (zh) (tiàoqí)

• Finnish: kiinanšakki, tähtihalma
• French: dames chinoises (fr)
• German: Halma (de) f
• Icelandic: kínaskák f
• Japanese: ダイヤモンドゲーム (daiyamondogēmu)
• Russian: кита́йские ша́шки f pl (kitájskije šáški), ха́лма f (xálma), ха́льма f (xálʹma)
• Spanish: tablero chino (es) m, damas chinas f pl
• Swedish: kinaschack (sv) n
• Zhuang: geizdiuq