What is another word for racquets?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈake͡ɪs] (IPA)

Racquets, also spelled as "racquets," is a term used to describe a type of sports equipment commonly used in games like tennis, squash, and badminton. While it is widely known by this name, there are several synonyms that can be used to refer to this equipment. These include "rackets," "batons," "paddles," "bats," and "clubs." The use of synonyms for racquets can aid in providing variety to descriptions of gameplay and equipment used in various sports. Moreover, it helps in making communication more effective and efficient since terms can be used interchangeably depending on who you are talking to or what specific game you are playing.

What are the hypernyms for Racquets?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Racquets

I don't think any food could be bought in the canteen, but wine, and, I think, whisky also, could be obtained, as well as tennis racquets, knives, books, pencils, boxes, and tobacco of all sorts.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
I know you've got silver spiders and filagree racquets, and Rhine-stone moons and stars stowed away somewhere and won't confess it.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
A score of young Britons come next in rickshaws, some carrying tennis racquets, and others reading books or the afternoon paper.
"The Critic in the Orient"
George Hamlin Fitch

Famous quotes with Racquets

  • Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.
    Helen Wills Moody
  • I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.
    Jana Novotna
  • Many young poets, nowadays, are insured against everything. For them poetry is a game like court tennis or squash racquets — one they learned at college — and they play it with propriety, as part of their social and academic existence; their poems are occasional verse for which life itself is only one more occasion.
    Randall Jarrell
  • He was a bad acquaintance for a placid, sedentary soul like me, for though he could work like a Trojan when the fit took him, he was never at the same job very long. In the same week he would harass an Under-Secretary about horses for the Army, write voluminously to the press about a gun he had invented for potting aeroplanes, give a fancy-dress ball which he forgot to attend, and get into the semi-final of the racquets championship. I waited daily to see him start a new religion.
    John Buchan
  • Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.
    Roger Zelazny

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