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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" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).
776 BCE — the original Ancient Olympic Games were first organised, traditionally in 776 BCE, as a panhellenic religious festival for Zeus. The festival was held four-yearly and this time span was called an Olympiad. Sporting events are believed to have been added to the festivities at a later date.
العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; Basa Bali; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
The primary origin of jianzi is an ancient Chinese game called Cuju, from the Han dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD). Jianzi is played on a badminton court using inner or outer lines in different competition settings. It can also be played artistically, among a circle of players in a street or park, with the objective to keep the shuttle ...
In Ancient Greece and in the Roman Empire, popular games included ball games (Episkyros, Harpastum, Expulsim Ludere – a kind of handball), dice games (Tesserae), knucklebones, Bear games, Tic-tac-toe (Terni Lapilli), Nine men's morris (mola) and various types of board games similar to checkers. Both Plato and Homer mention board games called ...
A shuttlecock (also called a birdie or shuttle, or ball) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape formed by feathers or plastic (or a synthetic alternative) embedded into a rounded cork (or rubber) base. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely aerodynamically stable. Regardless of initial ...
Roman women engaged in sports. Mosaic at the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily. A statue of a victress of the Heraean Games, represented near the start of a race. Before each ancient Olympic Games a separate women's athletic event was held at the stadium in Olympia, called the Heraean Games and was dedicated to the goddess ...
The Mayan ballgame of Pitz is believed to be the first ball sport, as it was first played around 2500 BC. There are artifacts and structures that suggest that the Chinese engaged in sporting activities as early as 2000 BCE. [22] Gymnastics appears to have been a popular sport in China's ancient past.