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Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子; pinyin: jiànzi), [Note 1] is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
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).
A mixed-gender badminton match An unofficial mixed doubles match of beach volleyball. Mixed-sex sports (also known as coed sports) are individual and team sports whose participants are not of a single sex. In many organised sports settings, rules dictate an equal number of people of each sex in a team (for example teams of one man and one woman).
One of the main reasons is that badminton in the U.S. is seen as a backyard sport. Due to this, the sport has not grown much. Another reason is the lack of Olympic success by American athletes. This lack of success is another reason why the sport has not grown in comparison to other sports. Finally, wages are a huge reason why badminton has not ...
Barium isn’t absorbed at all by the body, and what many people don’t realize is how common it is to pass pale, chalky, and/or clay-like stool for several days after swallowing barium. “It ...
Badminton was added to the Commonwealth Games program in 1966, as an optional sport. The sport was chosen to replace lawn bowls, due the lack of facilities at Jamaica. Having this status until the 1994 edition, when it became a mandatory sport.
Per Parry, Negro History Week started during a time when Black history was being "misrepresented and demoralized" by white scholars who promoted ideas like the Lost Cause or the Plantation Myth ...
Badminton people (2 C) R. Badminton records and statistics (1 C, 3 P) S. Seasons in badminton (3 C) T. Badminton tournaments (12 C, 4 P) V. ... Pages in category ...