Also known as 'Chacra', Chakar' and 'Chakra'.

The steel quoit of the Sikhs, especially the Akalis. It is a flat steel ring from five to twelve inches in diameter and from half an inch to an inch and a half wide. The outer edge is sharp. It is usually plain but sometimes elaborately inlaid with gold or silver. Several of different sizes were often carried on a pointed turban, the 'Dastaar Boonga'.

Egerton says that it is whirled around the finger and thrown with great accuracy and force as much as sixty paces. Other accounts state that the thrower stands squarely facing his objective, takes the chakram between the thumb and the first finger of the right hand, holding it low down on his left side. He then turns his body so as to bring the right shoulder as far forward as possible and thrown underhand with the full swing of his body. He also says that it is thrown with sufficient force and accuracy to cut off a green bamboo (3/4 inch in diameter) at a distance of 30 yards.

Akali Nihangs used Chakars employed to smash through and rout opponent's vanguard.