noun
disk-flicking board game; crokinole; carrom; pitchnut
Refers to a category of tabletop games where players flick disks across a board, including Western games like crokinole and carrom, as well as Japanese variants. The term is not widely used in modern Japanese; specific game names are more common.
闘球盤は、指で円盤をはじいて得点を競うゲームだ。
Tōkyūban is a game where players flick disks with their fingers to compete for points.
カナダのクロキノールも闘球盤の一種とされる。
Canadian crokinole is also considered a type of tōkyūban.
Compound of 闘 (tō, 'fight') or 投 (tō, 'throw'), 球 (kyū, 'ball'), and 盤 (ban, 'board'). The exact origin is uncertain; it likely arose as a descriptive term for disk-flicking board games.