Racket (sports equipment)
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A racket or racquet is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in a variety of sports. A racket consists of three major components: a widened distal end known as the head, a
Badminton rackets
Real tennis rackets and balls
Table Tennis racket with 3 different sizes of the celluloid ball
A modern tennis racket, with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer frame
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
Racket (sports equipment)
…mesh face made of interlaced, tightly stretched strings fixed on an ovoid frame known as the rim. This type of racket is used in sports such as tennis, badminton, and racquetball. Some rackets have a rigid one-piece head with a solid or fenestrated face instead of a meshwork of strings. Such rackets are called…
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)