Some additional games that adults would play are darts and dice games.

Knitted garments are often more form-fitting than woven garments, since their elasticity allows them to follow the body's curvature closely ; by contrast, curvature is introduced into most woven garments only with sewn darts, flares, gussets and gores, the seams of which lower the elasticity of the woven fabric still further.

Known as " locals " to regulars, pubs are typically chosen for their proximity to work, the availability of a particular beer, as a place to smoke ( or avoid it ), hosting a darts team, having a pool table, or appealing to friends.

Traditional games are played in pubs, ranging from the well-known darts, skittles, dominoes, cards and bar billiards, to the more obscure Aunt Sally, Nine Men's Morris and ringing the bull.

High-density alloys of tungsten with nickel, copper or iron are used in high-quality darts ( to allow for a smaller diameter and thus tighter groupings ) or for fishing lures ( tungsten beads allow the fly to sink rapidly ).

There are also Staines clubs catering for rowing, sailing, cricket, hockey, running, rambling, martial arts ( jujitsu ), rifle & pistol shooting, bowls, chess, contract bridge, snooker / darts / pool / poker, and various football teams, as well as a district table tennis league.

" Lance " is also the name given by some anthropologists to the light flexible javelins ( technically, darts ) thrown by atlatls ( spear-throwing sticks ), but these are usually called " atlatl javelins ".

Despite claims that boar bristles have been used in the manufacture of premium dart boards for use with steel-tipped darts, these boards are, in fact, made of other materials and fibres — the finest ones from sisal rope.

The darts used in the game are made of a wood block set with a nail with fins of chicken feather.

The darts of German ( Heckler & Koch P11 ) and Russian underwater firearms, and other similar weapons are also supercavitating.

Hazards include falling " smart darts " ( small bullets that fly slowly across the screen, but when orthogonally lined up with Jumpman, greatly speed up and shoot straight in his direction ) and other hazards that are unique to a certain level.

and Newbury C. C .. Newbury also has two strong athletics clubs with Team Kennet and Newbury Athletics Club and there are Newbury District Leagues in many other sports such as badminton, table tennis, squash and darts.

Arrows, darts, spears, and similar weapons are fired using pure mechanical force applied by another object ; apart from throwing without tools, mechanisms include the catapult, slingshot, and bow.

Since knitted fabrics are generally somewhat elastic and have a softer hand ( feel or drape ) than woven fabric, sweaters that are more tightly fitted or have a soft drape may conform well to the body without requiring tailoring necessary in a woven garment such as darts, flares and gores.

Since these cannot be stabilized by rifling, they are built instead like large darts, with fins providing the stabilizing force, negating the need for rifling.

At the centre there are two crossbow darts was-the crossbow being the favourite weapon of the peasants.

There are meetings and events where people can throw darts.

Bandoliers are also popularly used for toy guns such as the Bandolier Kit from Nerf for holding magazines and foam darts for the ease of the user of any Nerf blaster.

Bashir's closest friend is O ' Brien, and they are frequently shown playing games ( like darts ) or visiting the holosuite for the recreation of one of several historical battles such as the Alamo or the Battle of Britain.

The tsentsak, these spirit helpers, or darts, are the main supernatural forces believed to cause illness and death in daily life.

Darts ( kuru ) is an equally popular outdoor team sport, in which heavy wooden darts pointed with a 10 cm nail are thrown at a paperback-sized target 10 to 20 m away.

Today blowguns are used with tranquilizer darts to capture wildlife or to stun caged dangerous animals.

Blowguns are also used recreationally, with either darts or paintballs.

Three darts are fired by each shooter, at least one of which must stick in the target.

Kobas possess sharp claws, which they use like darts to incapacitate their intended food source.

Her early wuxia pictures from 1948 to 1957 were in both Mandarin and Cantonese dialogue, with stories intended to increase cooperation of the Northern Style and Southern Style of martial arts, as seen in The heroine of deadly darts ( 女俠響尾追魂鏢 ) in 1956.

The most commonly used ammunition were stones, but “ darts and sharp wooden poles ” could be substituted if necessary.

Extra curvature can be introduced into knitted garments without seams, as in the heel of a sock ; the effect of darts, flares, etc.

The characters have typically Amisian names and broad caricatured qualities: Keith Talent, the lower-class crook with a passion for darts ; Nicola Six, a femme fatale who is determined to be murdered ; and upper-middle-class Guy Clinch, " the fool, the foil, the poor foal " who is destined to come between the other two.

* Shuriken-various small hand held weapons including throwing stars and throwing darts that could be used to stab, slash or they could be thrown

There is scarcely a spot in the community outside the immediate village where some visible trace of the Native American has not been found, and in several places within the limits of the community, darts and arrowheads can be picked up in small quantities.

; and Keyop's and Princess's yo-yo bombs, which could be used as bolas, darts, and explosive devices.

Other weapons include feathers with a sharpened steel quill that could be used as deadly throwing darts, and mini-grenades shaped like ball bearings with spike studs.

* Since " y is not in f ( x )" is predictably true, by the symmetry of the order in which the darts were thrown ( hence the name " axiom of symmetry ") we should also be able to predict with virtual certainty that " x is not in f ( y )".

With or without darts, a cataphract charge would usually be supported by some kind of missile troops ( mounted or unmounted ) placed on either flank of the enemy formation.

* In darts, 60 ( treble-twenty ) is the highest score which can be achieved with a single dart.

In darts, 23 is the lowest score that cannot be gained with the throw of a single dart.

They had to be soaked overnight to heal the holes made by the darts, and it was a messy business for the publican, although darts was a popular game.

* Any dart that does not remain in the board until it is collected by the player ( for example, a dart that hits a wire and bounces out of the board or drops out with the impact of a later throw ) also scores nothing ; exception should be noted if play is on any electronic board: darts falling out are counted.

There are many games that can be played on a dartboard, but darts generally refers to a game whereby the player throws three darts per visit to the board with the goal of reducing a fixed score, commonly 501 or 301, to zero (" checking out "), with the final dart landing in either the ( double ) bullseye or a double segment.

Although playing straight down from 501 is standard in darts, sometimes a double must be hit to begin scoring, known as " doubling in ", with all darts thrown before hitting a double not being counted.

However, Hankey requested the air conditioning be turned off, as his much lighter darts were affected mid-flight, causing them to drift.

The remaining darts will be distributed uniformly within the area under the curve, and the x-positions of these darts will be distributed according to the random variable's density.