Horseshoes (game)

This article is about the game. For horseshoes used on animals, see horseshoe. For other uses, see Horseshoe (disambiguation).
Horseshoes
Horseshoes
Highest governing bodyNational Horseshoe Pitchers Association
NicknamesPitch
Characteristics
Contactnon-contact
Team membersindividual
Presence
Olympicnon-Olympic
Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona

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.