Examples from literature

• And there was the checker-board if they wanted to play checkers or dominoes. 
• Here are men playing checkers, dominoes, and other games. 
• The sailors amused themselves after the manner of sailors everywhere, playing dominoes, cards and checkers, boxing and telling stories. 
• To while away the time they played games and taught the Inca checkers and chess, as well as bowling-on-the-green and quoits. 
• You can jump as in checkers: that is, you can go over a counter if there is a blank space behind it.