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Racket sport

Meaning in sports & fitness, with examples

nounCommon term

In sports & fitness, racket sport means: A sport in which players use a racket to hit a ball or shuttle, usually over a net or against a wall.

In Turkish: raket sporu

How it is used

Used to classify sports such as tennis, badminton, squash, and padel. Common in coaching, school programs, and sports science.

Example sentences

  1. Because hand-eye coordination develops differently, the academy tests racket sport athletes separately from swimmers and runners.

    Here the term groups athletes by sport type, emphasizing shared skill demands rather than one specific game.

  2. She switched from team sport to a racket sport because she preferred direct responsibility for each result.

    In this sentence, it means an individual sport category where the player usually controls more of the outcome.

Common collocations

  • indoor racket sport
  • racket sport athlete
  • racket sport skills
  • competitive racket sport
  • team sportA sport in which players play together as a team against another team, such as football, basketball, volleyball or handball.
  • serveTo start a point in tennis, volleyball, badminton or table tennis by hitting the ball or shuttlecock to the opponent; as a noun, the shot itself.

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