Badminton is a racket game played with a feathered shuttle. Play badminton, a badminton court, the badminton club.
The shuttle leaves the racket faster than any other sporting projectile, at nearly five hundred kilometres an hour, and slows dramatically in flight, which is what makes the game what it is. It must be played indoors, because any draught ruins it.
1nounbadmintonA racket game played with a feathered shuttle.
“We put up a net in the garden and played badminton all afternoon.”
badminton is a game.
Named after Badminton House in Gloucestershire, where the game was played in England in the 1860s.
Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England. For the house name, see Badminton.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA