Skittles
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Skittles may refer to:
- Skittles (confectionery)Skittles (confectionery)Skittles is a brand of fruit-flavoured sweets, currently produced and marketed by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a division of Mars, Inc. They have hard sugar shells which carry the letter S. The inside is mainly sugar, corn syrup, and hydrogenated palm kernel oil along with fruit juice, citric acid,...
, a small candy made in many flavors - Skittles (sport)Skittles (sport)Skittles is an old European lawn game, a variety of bowling, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the United States, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom, the game remains a popular pub game in England and Wales, though it tends to be...
, the game from which bowling originated - Skittles (chess), a casual chess game in chess jargon
- Skittles, a CarromCarromCarrom is a family of tabletop games with gameplay that lies somewhere between billiards and table shuffleboard. Carrom is known by many names around the world, including carrum, couronne, carum, karam, karom, karum, fatta and finger billiards...
version that uses a spinning top to knock over pins - Skittles, a slang term for CoricidinCoricidinCoricidin, Coricidin 'D , or CoricidinHBP , is the name of a drug marketed by Schering-Plough that contains dextromethorphan and chlorpheniramine maleate...
in recreational uses - "Skittles", nickname of Catherine WaltersCatherine WaltersCatherine Walters, also known as "Skittles" , was a fashion trendsetter and one of the last of the great courtesans of Victorian London...
, a famous Victorian courtesan