- a board marked off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers or chess is played.
- a design resembling this: The garden was laid out in a checkerboard.
- to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern: a wall checkerboarded with black and white tiles.
- a square board divided into 64 squares of alternating colours, used for playing checkers or chess
