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Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using small rackets (battledores), made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks , made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed ...
3 cze 2022 · Games with a shuttlecock are recorded at least as early as 2400 years ago. These games can be divided into three groups: those where the shuttlecock is struck with the foot, the hand, or a bat/racket (battledore). Battledore and Shuttlecock in Ancient Greece.
24 lis 2024 · For his new game Naismith selected features of football (soccer), American football, field hockey, and other outdoor sports but (in theory) eliminated body contact between players. Because his physical education class at that time was composed of 18 men, basketball originally was played by 9 on each side (eventually reduced to 5).
4 paź 2024 · Badminton is an indoor sport played by two opposing players (singles) or two pairs (doubles), who use a shuttlecock during a rally to try to land it on their opponents’ court or force an error. A match is played in a best-of-three games format. To win the match, a player must secure two out of three games, each played to 21 points.
3 paź 2024 · Team Members: Singles or doubles. Type: Racquet sport, Net sport. Equipment: Shuttlecock, racquet. Olympic games: 1992–present. World Games: 1981. Badminton is described as “battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, over a string stretched five feet from the ground” in an 1863 piece in The Cornhill Magazine.
badminton, court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock. The roots of the sport can be traced to the old game battledore and shuttlecock, which was played in ancient Greece, China, and India.
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a ...
