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COURT GAME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An athletic game played on a court
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("court game" is a kind of...):
athletic game (a game involving athletic activity)
Domain member category:
server ((court games) the player who serves to start a point)
volley (make a volley)
serve (put the ball into play)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court game"):
handball (a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands)
racquetball (a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets)
fives (a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls)
squash; squash rackets; squash racquets (a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets)
volleyball; volleyball game (a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands)
jai alai; pelota (a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket)
badminton (a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net)
basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)
deck tennis (game played mainly on board ocean liners; players toss a ring back and forth over a net that is stretched across a small court)
netball (a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post)
lawn 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)
pallone (an Italian game similar to tennis)
