pickleball

English

A pickleball.

Alternative forms

• pickle ball
• pickle-ball

Etymology

From (pickle boat - boat) + ball

Noun

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^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• pickleballer
• pukaball