(n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
(n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was highest in men, and there was no difference between elite and recreational badminton players; 92% of the injured were playing with their injury.
(2) Many contributors had planned to attend the Badminton Horse Trials which have been cancelled for the first time since 1987 due to severe flooding.
(3) Mother, all I regret is that those people moved before we got our badminton set.
(4) Twelve expert and 15 novice badminton players viewed a film task which attempted to simulate the perceptual display of the sport of badminton.
(5) Another message that she retweeted – from Malaysia's badminton world champion, Lee Chong Wei – expressed the bewilderment so many felt: "I don't think we are ready to accept this so soon after the #MH370 tragedy."
(6) The mean VC of the basketball, boxing, cricket, football, hockey and the table tennis groups, the mean MVV of all the groups except the athletic, badminton and football groups, and the mean FEV 1.0 of football, hockey, swimming and volleyball groups were significantly higher than those of the sedentary group.
(7) Table tennis, like tennis, squash and badminton, is a racket sport.
(8) Deng, who was head of her school's athletic association and excelled at basketball and badminton, burst on to the US social scene after meeting Murdoch at a company party in Hong Kong.
(9) The prevalence of shoulder pain ranked highest among volley ball players (N = 28) followed by swimmers (N = 22), while badminton, basketball and tennis participants were equally affected (N = 10).
(10) However, although 18 sports had their investment increased, swimming and badminton had theirs cut.
(11) Hugh Thomas, the event director, issued a statement, which read: "The recent exceptional rainfall has left the ground at Badminton totally waterlogged and partially flooded.
(12) When VO2max was expressed in ml.kg-1.min-1, the long-distance runners registered the highest mean value (43.0), which was significantly higher than that of basketballers (34.9), handball players (36.2), badminton players (34.4), and swimmers (36.0).
(13) For this measurement, the sprinters (40.0), pentathletes (40.3), javelin throwers (40.0), and jumpers (39.4) did not differ significantly with each other, but each of the groups was significantly superior to basketballers, handballers, badminton players, and swimmers.
(14) Very sadly, therefore, the 2012 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials has been cancelled."
(15) "I was thinking of getting everyone to wear Bryan Ferry masks and then I'll dress up as the Jelly Fox and challenge them to a mass game of badminton.
(16) A Badminton Injury Questionnaire (BIQ) was developed to survey the type and frequency of injuries that are likely to occur from playing competitive badminton.
(17) The badminton injury pattern overlapped the others.
(18) Clubs for golf, fishing, hockey, badminton, land yachting and skiing on a dry slope were stopped from using the barracks to make way for the Libyans, allowing an estimated £1m worth of facilities to lie unused.
(19) The results also apply, in principle, to badminton and squash racquets, and to golf clubs.
(20) When the badminton or swimming association hasn’t got its money, it’s Kwesi Nyantatkyi … It’s ridiculous … Kwesi Nyantakyi must be crucified by all means.” • Most resilient: Zimbabwe FA head Cuthbert Dube - denying wrongdoing and demanding a £650,000 payout after officials deposed him and his board.
Racquet
Definition:
(n.) See Racket.
Example Sentences:
(1) He drops his racquet in disbelief and the pair of them embrace at the net.
(2) Because of the recent rapid increase in the number of knee injuries related to racquet sports, the authors undertook a retrospective study of such injuries seen over a 5-year period at the Toronto Western Hospital Sports Medicine Institute.
(3) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
(4) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
(5) In the video posted on YouTube , the supervisor is seen running off court and shutting the gate, at which point Abedini beats the gate with his racquet and kicks it while shouting at the official.
(6) The effectiveness of cushion grip bands in reducing impact shock and vibration transfer, and slipping in tennis racquets has been investigated.
(7) You have a platform that very few people will ever have ... You hit a tennis ball with a racquet over a little net, and just think what you can do with that, beyond trying to win Wimbledon."
(8) The authors report that in a 5-year period, 17% of the injuries seen in a busy sports injuries clinic were associated with racquet sports, and over half of these were injuries to the knee.
(9) Frequently during his defeat of Raonic, met with a line call he didn’t like, he would gawp at the linesman in mock shock, and drop his racquet and ball where he stood, drawing inevitable laughter.
(10) He hits a shot wide and smacks the barrier with his racquet.
(11) Changes in racquet variables, court surface, footwear, and string tension play an important part in treatment of both upper and lower extremity injuries.
(12) Laser beams were employed for precision adjustment of the spatial racquet position and the ball impact location.
(13) Racquet sports involve sharp, side-to-side movements and impose significant valgus and rotatory stresses on the knee.
(14) Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in racquet sport participation.
(15) Some of the more common racquet sport injuries include tennis leg, jumper's knee, patello-femoral pain, meniscal injuries, bursitis, and tendinitis.
(16) was used together with a standard tennis racquet for the investigation.
(17) Middle-aged men, however, especially those with known coronary disease or coronary risk factors, should approach racquet sports with caution, and might benefit from timely medical advice.
(18) With its 1080p screen, 90-degree field of view and 360-degree head-tracking, the fundaments are in place – it seems the device will also recognise Move as a virtual controller, which means you’ll be able to look down in the game world and see it in your hands, perhaps as a gun, a torch, or a tennis racquet.
(19) Over 90% of the patients returned to their chosen racquet sport within 3 months of the arthroscopy and most were playing at a similar performance level to that before the initial injury.
(20) Most fractures were thought to have occurred while the patient was swinging a racquet, golf club, or baseball bat.