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Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. [1] Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings.
Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) [4] Its exact origin remains obscure.
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The object resembles a hawk's lure, used from ancient times in the training of hunting birds. [citation needed] It is frequently shortened to shuttle.The "shuttle" part of the name is derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a 14th-century loom, while the "cock" part of the name is derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a rooster.
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[12] [13] The game was cited as a key example of the roleplay genre that several prominent Roblox games are a part of. [14] Brookhaven RP once had around 800,000 concurrent players at one time. [15] The game was nominated for "Favorite Video Game" at the 2022 Kids' Choice Awards [16] and 2023 Kids' Choice Awards. [17]
Victor Rackets Industrial Corporation (stylized as VICTOR) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of sporting equipment with products ranging from badminton and squash rackets, sportswear, shoes, shuttlecocks, and other equipment for the sport. [2] Its products are among the ones approved by Badminton World Federation for international tournaments. [3]
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