Checkers, or draughts, is a board game.

Checkers or Chequers may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Checkers: A Hard Luck Story, a 1896 novel by Henry Blossom
  • Checkers (1913 film), a 1913 lost American silent film with Gertrude Shipman
  • Checkers (play), based on the novel
  • Checkers (1919 film), a 1919 lost American melodrama silent film
  • Checkers (1937 film), a 1937 American drama film
  • 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
  • Checkers (video game), by Christopher Strachey

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 former team
  • Oakland Checkers, part of the California Hockey League from 1930 to 1933

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, a UK Government white paper concerning Brexit
  • Checker tree (Sorbus torminalis), a tree species

See also

  • Check (disambiguation), including cheque
  • Checker (disambiguation), including chequer