shuttlecock in English

noun
1
a cork to which feathers are attached to form a cone shape, or a similar object of plastic, struck with rackets in the games of badminton and battledore.
There were also some children who, perhaps intrigued by badminton star Nigelia Saunders' Olympic debut, used their purple plastic rackets to knock shuttlecocks over a purple and lime-green net to each other.

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1. You can kick a shuttlecock.

2. The shuttlecock landed in bounds.

3. Shuttlecock is quite popular here.

4. Noun Also called Battledore and shuttlecock

5. A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly Battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.

6. Do you have a spare shuttlecock?

7. The shuttlecock kicking is interesting.

8. Battledore (plural Battledores) A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly Battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton

9. Battledore (plural Battledores) A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton

10. I want to kick a shuttlecock.

11. Our teacher a shuttlecock real feathers.

12. They are knocking up a shuttlecock.

13. A kicking a shuttlecock outside the Lotus Market.

14. Aeroplane Shuttlecock EG1130 (Black Label) - Excellent Grade

15. But I'm also good at shuttlecock kicking.

16. Their shuttlecock ended up on the tree branch.

17. Playing with the shuttlecock is of one of the favorites of Dalianese.

18. The kids are playing the interesting game of kicking shuttlecock.

19. I found him kicking at the shuttlecock in the room.

20. 3 synonyms for Battledore: badminton racket, badminton racquet, Battledore and shuttlecock

21. BAdminton, court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock

22. They batted the shuttlecock back and forth across the net a few time.

23. She sent the shuttlecock flying over the net with a practised flick of the wrist.

24. Battledore and shuttlecock is one of the traditional New Year game in Japan

25. Badminton, court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock

26. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net.

27. 14 Dad: Cool, we can take the football, shuttlecock and badminton racket to the park.

28. I suddenly saw her as the shuttlecock in the game her husband is playing with his inamorata.

29. Sports To put ( a ball or shuttlecock ) in play , as in tennis, badminton , or jai alai.

30. Dad: Cool, we can take the football, shuttlecock and badminton racket to the park.

31. Battledores was an early form of badminton played with a flat wooden paddle and a shuttlecock

32. Noun An instrument shaped like a racket, but smaller, used in playing the game of Battledore and shuttlecock

33. Bandying definition: toss or strike a ball back and forth synonyms: play, shuttlecock antonyms: inactivity, overact, underact

34. Battledore and Shuttlecock or Jeu de Volantis is an early game similar to that of modern Badminton

35. From the 1600s, Battledore and shuttlecock was just a game involving 2 persons hitting a shuttlecock towards each other as many times as possible before it hit the ground and it used to be an upper-class game in Europe, including England.

36. Badminton is played with racquets, a shuttlecock and with a mesh net separating the two players or pairs

37. The teams that are playing Badminton must constantly be moving around the court to help volley the shuttlecock to the opposing team.

38. 3.2: A shuttlecock of the correct speed will land not less than 530 mm and not more than 990 mm short of the other back boundary line.

39. Although badminton holds the record for the fastest initial speed of a racquet sports projectile, the shuttlecock decelerates substantially faster than other projectiles such as tennis balls.

40. The basic Backhand grip is used when hitting the shuttlecock in front of the body on the Backhand side (left side for right-handed players, or right side for left-handed players)

41. The main advantage of a spinning net shot is that the opponent will be unwilling to address the shuttlecock until it has stopped tumbling, since hitting the feathers will result in an unpredictable stroke.

42. Battledore a wooden paddle-shaped implement formerly used in washing clothes for beating and stirring; the word then came to denote the small racket used in the game of Battledore and shuttlecock, the forerunner of badminton

43. This game borrowed the drum style Battledores from the Shuttlecock game, and used a 50mm webbed wrapped cork ball, with an amazing 30cm high net that was secured by a belt-like strap under the table

44. Hypernyms ("Battledore" is a kind of): racket; racquet (a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games)

45. Definition of Badminton : a court game played with light long-handled rackets and a shuttlecock volleyed over a net Examples of Badminton in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Once deemed a game played only by seniors, the paddlesport combining elements of Badminton, …

46. Battledore and shuttlecock, children’s game played by two persons using small rackets called Battledores, which are made of parchment, plastic, or rows of gut or nylon stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed around the top.

47. Badminton (countable and uncountable, plural Badmintons) (uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.

48. Badminton ( countable and uncountable, plural Badmintons ) ( uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.

49. As nouns the difference between badminton and Battledore is that badminton is a racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in british english and a referee in american english while Battledore is

50. Badminton (n.) outdoor game similar to lawn tennis but played with a shuttlecock, 1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona.The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), "estate of (a man called) Baduhelm."