chukker

English

Alternative forms

• chukka, chukkar

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi चक्कर (cakkar), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, cycle, cyclus, and wheel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʌ.kə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʌ.kɚ/

Noun

chukker (plural chukkers)

1. One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 52:

     ‘Let's have another chukker.’

Translations

playing period in polo

• Finnish: erä (fi)