halma

A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.

Noun

  1. A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
    • As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes. - 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Christmas Revel”, in Reginald:
  2. In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).