Racket sports are

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s in which players use a

racket Racket may refer to: * Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime ** Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law * Racket (sports equ ...

or paddle to hit a

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or other object. Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings. Paddles have a solid face rather than a network of strings, but may be perforated with a pattern of holes, or be covered with some form of textured surface. Wiki carolina marin

Sports that use a netted racket

* Badminton * Ball badminton *

Frontenis Frontenis is a sport that is played in a 30 meter pelota court using racquets (a tennis racquet or a similar frontenis racquet) and rubber balls. It can be played in pairs or singles, but only pairs frontenis is played in international compe ...

* Battledore and shuttlecock * Crossminton (previously "Speedminton") *

Qianball {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Qianball is a racket sport similar to tennis or squash. The sport originated from Chinese Qianlongball, and was popularized in Denmark with their own organization, the KFUM.The game can be desc ...

Racketlon Racketlon is a combination sport in which competitors play a sequence of the four most popular racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis. It originated in Finland and Sweden and was modeled on other combination sports like the t ...

(a series of other racket and paddle sports) * Rackets * Racquetball *

Real tennis Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (also called "lawn tennis") is derived. It is also known as court tennis in the United Sta ...

* Road tennis * Soft tennis *

Speed-ball Speed-Ball is a Racquets (sport), racquet sport invented in Egypt in 1960 in sports, 1961 by Mohamed Lotfy, father of Hussein Lotfy (first world champion) and Ahmad Lotfy (the present president of FISB), for the training of beginner tennis player ...

* Squash ** Hardball squash * Squash tennis *

Stické Stické, also called stické tennis, is an indoor racquet sport invented in the late 19th century merging aspects of real tennis, racquets and lawn tennis. It derives from (Ancient Greek meaning "the art of playing ball"), the term originally gi ...

* Tennis * Tennis polo * Touchtennis * Lawn Tennis

Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle

* Basque pelota * Beach tennis * The Downside Ball Game * Four wall paddleball * Frescotennis *

Jokari Jokari is a racket game principally for two players that can also be played alone. The game consists of a rubber ball attached to an anchor on the floor by means of a long elastic band, which makes the ball come back when a person hits it. Joka ...

* Matkot * Miniten * One wall paddleball * Paddle ball * Paddle tennis * Padel *

Paleta Frontón Paleta frontón is a Peruvian sport that was born in the capital, Lima, in 1945. This sport has its roots in the " pelota vasca" brought by the Spanish settlers, and the domestic "pelota mano", called "handball" at that time due to English influence ...

* Pan Pong * Pelota mixteca *

Pickleball Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players (singles), or four players (doubles), hit a perforated hollow polymer ball over a net using solid-faced paddles. Opponents on either side of the net hit the ball back and ...

Pitton Pitton is a village in Wiltshire, England, about east of Salisbury, just off the A30 London Road. History A Roman road (now a bridleway) forms the northern boundary of the parish and is a scheduled monument. Local government The civil paris ...

* Platform tennis * Spec Tennis * Sphairee *

Stoolball Stoolball is a sport that dates back to at least the 15th century, originating in Sussex, southern England. It is considered a "traditional striking and fielding sport" and may be an ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles in some respects), ...

* Table squash * Table tennis (Ping Pong) * Totem tennis

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