Badminton
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Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" and "doubles". Badmin
Two Chinese pairs compete in the mixed doubles gold medal match of the 2012 Olympics
Match in pairs
An 1854 depiction of battledore and shuttlecock by John Leech
Charles Gleyre, Odysseus and Nausicaa (with badminton rackets)
Battledore and shuttlecock
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Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a game ancestral to the modern sport of badminton. It is played by two or more people using small rackets, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched a
Badminton
…is named by reference to this feature (e.g., German Federball, literally feather-ball). The game developed in British India from the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. European play came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has become very popular in Asia. In 1992, badminton debuted as a Summer Olympic sport with…
William Beechey, Kenneth Dixon playing with a shuttlecock, c. 1790.