Home > List > Boules > Tejo

Tejo is a traditional sport from Argentina with similarities to Bocce. It is not to be confused with a similarly named sport, Tejo from Colombia. The Argentinian Tejo is played between two teams, each with a series of tejos (a different color per team). Teams can be either Individual, Doubles, or Triples.

The sport is played on a rectangular sand filled field, 2.5 x 12 meters (divided into two equal parts of 6 meters). The coloured discs (tejo) are 4.5 inches in diameter and weigh about 11 ounces. In the individual game, each player has 4 discs. In doubles, each player has 3 discs (6 per team)

The play starts when one team throws the neutral disc, then their first throw. The opposition then throws until they land a disc closer. Once all the tejos are played, the team which landed the closest to a small and neutral tejo (called tejin), wins a point for each of their tejos that are closer than the opposing team's closest tejo. The aim is to score 15 points (12 points in some versions).

---

---

Similar Sports

• Tejo (Colombia) — a Colombian sport in which metal discs are thrown 20m to a target that explodes when hit.
• Washer Pitching — a target throwing game similar to horseshoes, in which players take turns to toss washers into a box or hole.
• Horseshoes — players toss horseshoes alternately at stakes in the ground.
• Pétanque — a type of boules in which the objective is to throw hollow metal balls towards a small wooden target ball.
• Quoits — a traditional target throwing game in which rings are thrown at a target spike, the aim is to get them as close as possible to the target.
• Digor — a sport from Bhutan in which a pair of spherical flat stones are hurled at two targets fixed in the ground 20m apart.
• Calva — a traditional Spanish sport in which you throw a piece of metal to knock down bull's horn-shaped piece of wood.

Related Pages

• List of Boules-type sports
• About Sport in Argentina
• Complete list of sports
• The Encyclopedia of Sports