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Pickleball equipment.

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Etymology

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From (pickle boat - boat) + ball. Coined by the sport inventor's wife who was reminded " [] of the pickle boat in rowing where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats." Similarly, the game initially used leftover equipment from badminton, table tennis, and wiffleball.[1]

Noun

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pickleball (countable and uncountable, plural pickleballs)

  1. (uncountable) A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball.
    • 2022 February 19, Shannon Mullen, “America's fastest growing sport is a cross between tennis, ping pong, and badminton”, in National[2], NPR, retrieved 2022-02-19:
      For the rapidly decreasing number of Americans who've never heard of pickleball, the obscure paddleball game is America's fastest growing sport for the second year in a row.
  2. (countable) The ball used in the sport of pickleball.

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References

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  1. ^ Pritchard, Joan (2008 July 27) “Origins of Pickleball”, in The Parkersburg News and Sentinel[1]