Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game played on a four-walled court by two or four players who alternately hit a small rubber ball against the front wall with short-handled rackets, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall.
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- noun uncountable A certain
sport , similar tosquash , but played with a biggerball . - noun A ball used for this sport.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets
- noun the ball used in playing the game of racquetball
Etymologies
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Examples
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These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.
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Women who gain too little are more likely to have smaller babies. 6 Exercise: sports such as racquetball that expose the abdomen to potential trauma.
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Monte Alban also has many large stellas or stone hieroglyph carvings and two ballcourts (which seem to lend themselves more to a kind of racquetball game than the hoop style basketball courts of the Maya).
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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(court tennis, racquets, squash tennis, for example) whose original clear-cut identity has become hazy owing to recently created sports, such as racquetball and platform tennis, which share some of the characteristics of the older games.
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"racquetball" to find this program in the JCPRD's Activities catalog and online listings.
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From chess to poker to racquetball, the science officer was a formidable competitor, employing a level of tenacity and even stubbornness that had become the stuff of much good-natured, respectful ribbing aboard ship.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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“We were going to play racquetball tonight, remember?”
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011
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He liked to jog and played rebote (a game something like racquetball) wearing tennis shoes and white pants.
Durango, Durango 2009
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If at all else, it makes them very competitive for handball, racquetball, or volleyball.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Grading work, the heavy bag, a day of manuscript doctoring. 2010
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Letting loose in a game of wallyball, a game akin to volleyball played with a net on a racquetball court, helps build teamwork at Aquascape, the garden-supply company.
Let the Boss Really See You Sweat Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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