Checkers, or draughts, is a board game.
Checkers or chequers may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Checkers (1913 film), a 1913 lost American silent film with Gertrude Shipman
- Checkers (1919 film), a 1919 lost American melodrama silent film
- Checkers (1937 film), a 1937 American drama film
- Checkers (novel), a 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
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
Ice hockey teams
- Charlotte Checkers, American Hockey League team
- Columbus Checkers, a former team
- Indianapolis Checkers, a defunct 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, the informal name for the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union
- Sorbus torminalis or Checkers tree, a tree species
See also
- Charlotte Checkers (disambiguation)
- Check (disambiguation), including cheque
- Checker (disambiguation), including chequer
- Draft (disambiguation), including draught
- All pages with titles beginning with checkers
- All pages with titles beginning with chequers
- All pages with titles containing checkers
- All pages with titles containing chequers
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