Squash vs. Racquetball — What's the Difference?

Any of various bushy or vining plants of the genus Cucurbita, having unisexual flowers and fleshy edible fruit with a thick rind when mature.

Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Joseph Sobek is credited with inventing the modern sport of racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to paddleball in order to increase velocity and control.

The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.

A game played on a four-walled court by two or four players who alternately hit a small rubber ball against the front wall with short-handled rackets, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall.

The act or sound of squashing.

(uncountable) A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball.

Something that has been squashed.

(countable) A ball used for this sport.

A crushed or crowded mass

The ball used in playing the game of racquetball

(Sports) A game played on a four-walled court by two or four players who use long-handled rackets to hit a small rubber ball against the front wall, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall after a stroke. Also called squash rackets.

A game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets

Chiefly British A citrus-based soft drink.

To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush.

To put down or suppress; quash

To silence or fluster, as with crushing words

To become crushed, flattened, or pulpy, as by pressure or impact.

To move with a splashing or sucking sound, as when walking through boggy ground.

With a squashing sound.

(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

(British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.

A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

(biology) A preparation made by placing material on a slide flat, rectangular piece of glass, covering it and applying pressure.

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.

Something unripe or soft.

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.

A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.

Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.

Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.

Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.

(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.

Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.

(culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

Muskrat.

(transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.

(transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.

An American animal allied to the weasel.

A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Hence, something unripe or soft; - used in contempt.

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; - called also squash rackets.

To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

Edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

A game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;