Darts (English spelling)

Japanese: ダーツ（英語表記）darts

A game in which players throw darts at a circular target (dartboard) and compete for points. The dartboard is divided into 20 equal parts radially from the small circle in the center, and each part is given a score from 1 to 20. There are also thin circular bands around the small circle in the center, on the outer periphery, and in the middle. The small circle in the center is worth 50 points, the surrounding bands are worth 25 points, the outer bands are worth twice the score of that part, and the middle band is worth three times the score of that part. In the game, players throw three arrows with weights and feathers, each about 16 cm long, from a distance of about 2.5 m, and the points of the parts that hit the target are subtracted from a total of 301 points. The first person to reach 0 points wins. Darts is most popular in England, where it has been known since the time of Henry VIII in the 16th century, and it is recorded that the colony founding party enjoyed playing darts on board the Mayflower in 1620. The World Darts Federation (WDF) was founded in London in 1976, and Japan joined in 1977. It now has more than 500,000 members from 50 countries. In the 1980s, darts became more popular around the world as dartboards became electronic, and by the early 1990s the number of players in the United States had reached more than 17 million.

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The word means a javelin, but in dressmaking it refers to a long, thin triangular stitch. It is a technique for making flat fabric into a three-dimensional shape that conforms to the curves of the body. It is mainly used on the shoulders, waist, chest, and cuffs.

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Japanese:

円形の標的（ダーツボード）に矢を投げて点数を競うゲーム。ダーツボードは中心の小円から放射状に 20等分されて 1から 20までの点数がつけられ，さらに中心の小円の周囲と外周と中ほどに細い円帯が設けられている。中心の小円が 50点，そのまわりの円帯が 25点，外の円帯はその部分の点数の 2倍，中ほどの円帯はその部分の点数の 3倍となっている。ゲームでは，約 2.5m離れたところから，おもりと羽根のついた長さ約 16cmの矢を 3本投げて，当てた部分の点数を持ち点の 301点から引いていき，先に 0点とした者を勝ちとする。最も盛んなのはイギリスで，16世紀ヘンリー8世の時代から知られており，1620年『メイフラワー』号上でも植民地建設団の一行がダーツを楽しんだと記録されている。1976年世界ダーツ連盟 World Darts Federation; WDFがロンドンで設立され，日本も 1977年に参加，50ヵ国から 50万人以上の競技者が加盟している。1980年代からダーツボードが電子化され世界中に人気が広がり，1990年代初頭のアメリカ合衆国では競技人口が 1700万人以上となった。