Net (device)
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A net comprises threads or yarns knotted and twisted into a grid-like structure which blocks the passage of large items, while letting small items and fluids pass. It requires less material than something sheet-like, and provides a degree of transparency, as well as flexibility and lightness.
A cargo net being used to unload sacks from a ship at Haikou New Port, Haikou City, Hainan, China
A fragment of neolithic fishing net.
Mending a net; binding a length of net to a new head rope. Note that, unusually, the gauge of the row being worked is larger than the gauge of the rest of the net.
Some nets are still made by hand. This 2013 image shows a Syrian refugee in Lebanon in her home, manually knotting a fishing net intended for sale.
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". Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the other team's half of the court.
Two Chinese pairs compete in the mixed doubles gold medal match of the 2012 Olympics
An 1854 depiction of battledore and shuttlecock by John Leech.
Charles Gleyre, Odysseus and Nausicaa (with badminton rackets).
Badminton racquets