Checker Explained

Checker or chequer or variant, may refer to:

People

• Chubby Checker (born 1941), American singer-songwriter best known for popularizing The Twist
• Emma Checker (born 1996), Australian footballer

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Checker, a game piece in the board game Checkers (UK: draughts)
• Checker Records, a record label

Brands and enterprises

• Checker Motors Corporation, built Checker taxis
• Checker Taxi, a taxi service founded by Morris Markin

Other uses

• Check (pattern), also called checker or checkered, a pattern consisting of squares of alternating colors
• Checker, the action that produces checkering, a surface applied to wooden gunstocks to provide a non-slip grip (see Gunsmith)
• Another term for retail clerk.

See also

• Checkerboard
• Checkers (disambiguation), including chequers
• Check (disambiguation), including cheque
• Draft (disambiguation), including draught