what dose croquet mean?
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Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.\n\nThe game was apparently invented in Ireland in the 1830s as a distant cousin of golf and taken to England as a pastime of the aristocracy in the 1850s. It may have evolved from the earlier mallet and ball game pall mall.\n\nIt made its way to Canada, the United States, Australia, and France, and while never hugely popular has continued to maintain a substantial following.
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Every manufacturer has a complete racquet line, so there is a racquet for you from each line.  If you go to www.NothingButTennis.com, on their strings and racquets page  scroll down and you will find racquet charts with all the specs on recent frames and you can compare the specifications.  You can determine from demos what spec values appeal to you.  Some specs of interest are: swingweight, power level, length, static weight, string pattern, head size, and stiffness.
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Racquetball is a sport played with racquets and a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. It was invented by Joe Sobeck in 1949 incorporating rules from squash and handball. Unlike many other racquet sports, the walls, floor, and even ceiling of the racquetball court are considered in-bounds. The game is normally played by two players, though there are variations with three or even four (which can get very crowded). Two player games are called singles, three player games are typically called iron-man (2 on 1 during entire game) or cut-throat (each player take turns serving to the other 2), and four player games are called doubles.
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It is the short form for the word recipè, which means 'take thou' or you are requested to take. Most doctors use this symbol almost religiously before prescribing. You might have also seen the short forms like Ix meaning investigation or Mx meaning management.
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raquet would be the original English spelling, racket is the American twist on it. But, both are acceptable.
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As per a billiards reference. It means your in a bad situation, down and out, experiencing bad luck or in deep trouble.
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While watching the men's final at the French Open today, I noticed that the French scorekeeper used "zero" in place of "love" when announcing the score. This is interesting because "love" was originally derived from the French "l'oeuf" which means "egg", a reference to the egg-shaped numeral zero. The British then bastardized "l'oeuf" into "love". Apparently, the French no longer use "l'oeuf" or even "amour", the French translation of "love", but just plain old "zero".
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its a good racquet if you like power and lightness. i dont and i pretty much use a tank of a racquet with no power because i can make my own. ive played with the aero drive tho and i didn't mind it too much.... except for nailing a few into the curtains ;)
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The year that croquet debuted in the Olympics was during the Olympiad II in Paris, France at the turn of the 20th century in 1900.  The event was dominated by the French in all of the categories winning all of the possible seven medals.  Their was only one other person that was of non-French heritage that entered, but he did not finish the first round.  This edition of the Summer Olympic Games was also part of the Paris World Fair.
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It means I play basketball
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It means something similar to 'Idle hand are the Devils playthings'... they both mean in essence..\nIf you have too much time on your hands, you are going to get in trouble.
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In 1859 Major Thomas Henry Gem, a solicitor, and his friend Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, who both lived in Birmingham, England played a game they named "pelota", after a Spanish ball game. The game was played on a lawn in Edgbaston. In 1872 both men moved to Leamington Spa, and with two doctors from the Warneford Hospital, played pelota on the lawn behind the Manor House Hotel (now residential apartments). Pereira joined with Dr. Frederick Haynes and Dr. A. Wellesley Tomkins to found the first lawn tennis club in the world, and played the game on nearby lawns. In 1874 they formed the Leamington Tennis Club, setting out the original rules of the game. The Courier of 23 July 1884 recorded one of the first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall (demolished 1948).\n\nIn December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield devised a similar game for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate at Nantclwyd, Wales. He based the game on the older sport of indoor tennis or real tennis ("royal tennis"), which had been invented in 12th century France and was played by French aristocrats down to the time of the French Revolution.\n\nAccording to most tennis historians, modern tennis terminology also derives from this period, as Wingfield borrowed both the name and much of the French vocabulary of royal tennis and applied them to his new game:\n\nTennis comes from the French tenez, the imperative form of the verb tenir, to hold: This was a cry used by the player serving in royal tennis, meaning "I am about to serve!" (rather like the cry "Fore!" in golf). \nRacquet comes from raquette, which derives from the Arabic rakhat, meaning the palm of the hand. \nDeuce comes from à deux le jeu, meaning "to both is the game" (that is, the two players have equal scores). \nLove may come from l'oeuf, the egg, a reference to the egg-shaped zero symbol; however, since "un oeuf" is more commonly used, the etymology remains in question. \nThe convention of numbering scores "15", "30" and "40" comes from quinze, trente and quarante, which to French ears makes a euphonious sequence.
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it stands for Non Steroidal Antiinflammatory drugs, which are analgesics, antipyretics, & reduce inflammation. e.g. Diclofenac "Voltaren" & Ibuprofen "Bruffen".
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DE L'ANCETRE DU TENNIS.LE JEU DE PAUME ON DISAIT TENEZ AVANT DE SERVIR,MAIS LES ANGLIAS EN L'IMPORTANT ONT MODIFIE TENEZ EN TENNIS
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I think it's prescription. Ask your doctor, hon =)
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there are basically two main kinds of rackets. \n\n1: heavy, normal sized "players" racquets. these are control-oriented racquets made for skilled players who have the strength and skill to provide their own power. in fact, pros weigh down their racquets even more than most heavy (12 oz or so) racquets. these racquets are good, and accurate, but many poeple believe they are too heavy and unforgiving for a less experienced player. \n\n2. player improvement racquets. these have oversize heads and light stiff frames that supposedly allow players to put more speed on the ball. also the larger heads are supposed to be more forgiving with a larger sweet spot. \n\na tweener racquet is a compromise between the two. not as wildly oversized as a player improvement racquet, and not as heavy as a players racquet.\n\n(my personal opinion is that everyone should buy heavy players racquets as most people will have the most problems keeping the ball in, and dont need a powerful racquet.)
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ITS MEANS DIFFERENT FOR ALL PERSON.\n\nFOR SOMEONE ITS FUN.\nFOR SOMEONE ITS WORKOUT\nFOR SOMEONE ITS JOB.