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# checkers

«checkers» in Mova's school dictionary: **a board game for two players who move round flat pieces…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (checkers — a game, used with a singular verb; a checker, checkers — pieces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Checkers is a board game for two players who move round flat pieces diagonally on a squared board and jump over the other player's pieces to capture them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#m1)

2) Checkers are the round pieces of this game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#m2)

3) A checker can also be a person who checks things, like at a supermarket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and play, children play checkers with family and friends; in maths it builds planning and thinking ahead. The board has 64 squares, 8 by 8. Phrases: play checkers, a game of checkers, king me.

### examples

- Let's play a game of checkers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x1)
- Checkers is played on a board with 64 squares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x2)
- I jumped over two of his checkers in one go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x3)
- When your piece reaches the far side, it becomes a king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x4)
- Grandpa taught me how to play checkers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x5)
- Checkers is easier to learn than chess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x6)
- The board has 8 rows of 8 squares, so 8 times 8 is 64. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/#x7)

### note

American English: checkers; British, Irish, Australian and NZ English: draughts (said drafts). Checkers looks plural but takes a singular verb: Checkers is fun. Checkered (US) or chequered (UK) means having a pattern of squares.

### In the corpora

- [Teachers and computer checkers often spot copied work, and cheating usually means a zero and a talk with your parents.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «checkers» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/checkers/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.