(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.
Shuttlecock
Definition:
(n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
(v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also a plastic balloon attached to a plastic line, a Sainbury's plastic bag urging its owner to recycle it, a car wheel, myriad unidentifiable pieces of plastic, a shotgun cartridge and a shuttlecock.
(2) The move is intended to make the space plane fall like a shuttlecock until it reaches 70,000 feet, when the tailbooms return to normal position and the plane glides the rest of the way down.
(3) When the feathering system is deployed, the space plane’s twin tail booms rotate forwards and upwards, dramatically increasing aerodynamic drag and making the craft fall like a shuttlecock.
(4) SpaceShipTwo is designed with Rutan’s revolutionary “feathering mechanism”, a shape-changing airfoil that creates a shuttlecock effect on re-entry, and helps the aircraft – unlike those used by Space X and Blue Origin – to land on a runway.