Horseshoes (game)

Horseshoes

Horseshoes
Highest governing body	National Horseshoe Pitchers Association
Nicknames	Pitch
Characteristics
Contact	non-contact
Team members	individual
Presence
Olympic	non-Olympic

Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 feet (12 m) apart. Modern games use a more stylized U-shaped bar, about twice the size of an actual horseshoe.