A game in which each player throws a stick over the upstream side of a bridge into a stream or river, the winner being the person whose stick emerges first from under the bridge.
桥上掷棒游戏(参加者在桥上向上游方向往河里掷棒,谁掷的棒在桥下先浮出水面即为赢)
Example sentencesExamples
Sports included Poohsticks, which involve the dropping of twigs into water from one side of a bridge and running to the other side to see which arrives first.
The small road bridge where the River Lostock in Audiville crosses the fast, Manchester-to-Preston expressway, where the Ducatis hit 130, is the perfect place to combine two sweet childhood games - Poohsticks and Chicken.
The game of Poohsticks was invented here by Winnie-the-Pooh and was first played by him and his friends Rabbit, Piglet, and Roo.
It's the game of Poohsticks, which poor old Eeyore himself inadvertently joins in.
Origin
1920s: from Winnie-the- Pooh, the name of a toy bear in the children's books of A. A. Milne.