the.com/darts

means A game in which players throw small pointed missiles at a circular numbered board, scoring points by where the tips land.

from From the dart itself — a word that came into English through Old French 'dart,' meaning a light throwing spear or arrow, with deeper Germanic roots. For centuries a dart was a real weapon, slim and deadly; the pub game is essentially miniature spear-chucking, possibly born from soldiers and archers hurling shortened arrows at upturned barrel-ends or log cross-sections to pass the time. The plural 'darts' for the game became standard as the pastime took hold in British pubs.