pickleball
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From (pickle boat - boat) + ball. Coined by the sport inventor's wife who was reminded " […] of the pickle boat in rowing where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats." Similarly, the game initially used leftover equipment from badminton, table tennis, and wiffleball.[1]
Noun
[edit]pickleball (countable and uncountable, plural pickleballs)
- (uncountable) A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball.
- 2022 February 19, Shannon Mullen, “America's fastest growing sport is a cross between tennis, ping pong, and badminton”, in National[2], NPR, retrieved 2022-02-19:
- For the rapidly decreasing number of Americans who've never heard of pickleball, the obscure paddleball game is America's fastest growing sport for the second year in a row.
- (countable) The ball used in the sport of pickleball.
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[edit]ball used in sport
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