They oughtn't to be allowed to bowl hoops here-" "Oughtn't to be allowed to bowl hoops!
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The street does all right for hoops.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
It proved to be a gipsy encampment, consisting of three or four little cabins, or tents, made of blankets and sail-cloth, spread over hoops that were stuck in the ground.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving