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Tennis vs. Badminton — What's the Difference?

Tennis vs. Badminton — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tennis and Badminton

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court.

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side).

Tennis

A game played with rackets and a light ball by two players or two pairs of players on a rectangular court divided by a net. The players must hit the ball over the net and into a marked area on the other side for play to continue. Also called lawn tennis.

Badminton

A game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.

Tennis

Court tennis.
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Badminton

A sport played by volleying a shuttlecock back and forth over a high narrow net by means of a light, long-handled racket.

Tennis

(sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

Badminton

(uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.

Tennis

(dated) A match in this sport.

Badminton

(countable) A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.

Tennis

(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.

Badminton

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

Tennis

To play tennis.

Badminton

A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

Tennis

(transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

Badminton

A game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net

Tennis

A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.

Tennis

To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

Tennis

A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court

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