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Definition of Court game
1. Noun. An athletic game played on a court.
Specialized synonyms: Handball, Racquetball, Fives, Squash, Squash Rackets, Squash Racquets, Volleyball, Volleyball Game, Jai Alai, Pelota, Badminton, Basketball, Basketball Game, Hoops, Deck Tennis, Netball, Lawn Tennis, Tennis, Pallone
Examples of category: Server, Volley, Serve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Court Game
Literary usage of Court game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Life and Recollections by Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1866)
"... mountains—Heron Court—Game bagged there—Lord Wemyss and the sporting
blacksmith—Goose shooting—Seeking a venison deer. MY first act after receiving the ..."
2. Tennis as I Play it by Maurice Evans McLoughlin (1915)
"Their style of game is almost entirely a back- court game. ... Certainly they
have brought the back-court game up to a more marvelous degree of skill than ..."
3. Getting Fit Your Way: A Self-paced Fitness Guide (1993)
"If I play a lazy half- court game, I do not breathe that hard, ... On the other
hand, if we play a tough full-court game, I will have to stop to catch my ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"Mr. Harrison writes on the Rugby plain court game, but Mr. Tail's essay leaves
no detail of either game untouched ..."
5. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"Though taking its rise in France the game was generally popular in Europe, being
a favorite court game in Spain and Italy. It was, at an early period, ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1874)
"... places with considerable variety in the minor details. in the following
description we shall adhere as closely as possible to the English court game. ..."
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