Checkers (disambiguation)

Look up checkers, chequers, or draughts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Checkers, or draughts, is a board game.

Checkers or chequers may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Checkers (1913 film), a 1913 lost American silent film with Gertrude Shipman
• Checkers (1919 film), a 1919 lost American melodrama silent film
• Checkers (1937 film), a 1937 American drama film
• Checkers: A Hard Luck Story, a 1896 novel by Henry Blossom
  • Checkers (play), based on the novel
• Checkers (Marsden novel), a 1996 young-adult fiction novel by Australian author John Marsden
• The Checkers (American band), a doo-wop group of the 1950s
• The Checkers (Japanese band), a Japanese idol group of the 1980s

Brands and enterprises

• Checkers (fast food), an American fast food restaurant chain
• Checkers (supermarket chain), a supermarket chain in South Africa
• Checkers Food Stores, a Channel Islands supermarket chain
• The Checkers (restaurant), in Powys, Wales

Ice hockey teams

• Charlotte Checkers, American Hockey League team
• Charlotte Checkers (1956–1977), an EHL/SHL team
• Charlotte Checkers (1993–2010), an ECHL team
• Columbus Checkers, a former team
• Indianapolis Checkers, a defunct team
• Oakland Checkers, part of the California Hockey League from 1930 to 1933

Video games

• Checkers (video game), an early video game developed by Christopher Strachey

Other uses

• Checkers speech, made by Richard Nixon in 1952, mentioning his dog named Checkers
• Chequers, the country residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Chequers plan, the informal name for the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union
• Sorbus torminalis or Checkers tree, a tree species

See also

 

Search for "checkers" , "chequers", or "draughts" on Wikipedia.

• Check (disambiguation), including cheque
• Checker (disambiguation), including chequer
• All pages with titles beginning with checkers
• All pages with titles beginning with chequers
• All pages with titles containing checkers
• All pages with titles containing chequers