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A lawn game is any outdoor game that can be played on a lawn
Lawn

A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with Poaceae, and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height....
. Many games that are traditionally played on a pitch
Pitch (sports)

A pitch is an open outdoor area for various activities. It is used in British English and Australian English; the comparable term in American English is Playing field....
 are marketed
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 as "lawn games" for home use in a front or back yard.

Common lawn games include:






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A lawn game is any outdoor game that can be played on a lawn
Lawn

A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with Poaceae, and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height....
. Many games that are traditionally played on a pitch
Pitch (sports)

A pitch is an open outdoor area for various activities. It is used in British English and Australian English; the comparable term in American English is Playing field....
 are marketed
Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
 as "lawn games" for home use in a front or back yard.

Common lawn games include:
  • Horseshoes
    Horseshoes

    Horseshoes is an outdoor game played between two people using four horseshoes and two stakes. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 foot apart....
  • Lawn darts
    Lawn darts

    Lawn darts is a lawn game for two players or teams. A lawn dart set usually includes four large dart and two targets. The game play and objective are similar to both horseshoes and darts....
  • Croquet
    Croquet

    Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena....
  • Bocce
    Bocce

    Bocce , is a precision sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and p?tanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire....
  • Bowls
    Bowls

    Bowls is a sport in which the goal is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, closest to a smaller—normally white—bowl called the "jack" or "kitty"....
  • Sholf
    Sholf

    Sholf, a game, is a cross between table shuffleboard and golf. player s take turns putting golf balls into scoring zones printed on a putting green....
  • Petanque
    Pétanque

    P?tanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing with the feet together in a small circle, to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet ....


See also

  • Ladder golf
    Ladder golf

    Ladder golf is a lawn game played by throwing a Bolas of two golf balls connected with a rope at a ladder. Different rungs of the ladder are worth different point values, with the goal of the game being to get exactly 21 points....
  • Mölkky
    Mölkky

    M?lkky is a Finland throwing game which originated in the P?ij?nne Tavastia region in Southern Finland. It is reminiscent of kyykk?, another Finnish throwing game with Karelian roots....
  • Egg rolling
    Egg rolling

    File:Eastern roll eggs in the White House in 1929.jpgEgg rolling, or an Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with Egg at Easter....
  • Kubb
    Kubb

    Kubb is a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden sticks at them.Kubb can be simply described as a combination of bowling and horseshoes....
  • Quoits
    Quoits

    Quoits is a traditional lawn game involving the throwing of a metal or rubber ring over a set distance to land over a pin in the centre of a patch of clay....
  • Skittles
    Skittles (sport)

    Skittles is an old European :Category:Precision sports, a variety of bowling, from which Ten-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, and Candlepin bowling in the United States, and Five-pin bowling in Canada are descended....
  • Washers
  • Cornhole
    Cornhole (game)

    Cornhole is a lawn game in which players take turns pitching cornhole bags—cotton duck bags filled with feed corn—at a raised platform with a hole in the far end....