skittles : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: skittles	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for skittles
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skittles n a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins Synonym(s): ninepins, skittles
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skittles \Skit"tles\, n. pl. [Of Scand. origin. [root]159. See {Shoot}, v. t., and cf. {Shuttle}, {Skit}, v. t.] An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.