a game played on a board with holes arranged in the shape of a six-pointed star, by from two to six players, the winner being the one who first moves his or her set of marbles across the board
Word origin
prob. so named from the characteristic ornamentation of the board
Examples of 'Chinese checkers' in a sentence
Chinese checkers
He had a kind face and large dark eyes like the black marbles that come with Chinese checkers sets.