quoit

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A Philadelphia trophy was inscribed: "Given by the German-American Bund; quoit tournament, 1937."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Let’s see...earlier I was eating ice cream. Right now I’m tossing this quoit ring.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Jason had no idea what a quoit was, but he tried to stay focused.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The Wharf, St Ives Zennor has a curious little church with carved bench ends, on one of which is represented a mermaid, and Zennor "quoit" is thought to be the largest cromlech in England.

From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The games consisted of chariot, horse and foot races; leaping, wrestling, boxing, throwing the discus or quoit, etc.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann