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Croquet
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. more...
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The 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.
It made its way to Canada, the United States, Australia, and France, and while never hugely popular has continued to maintain a substantial following.
Competitive croquet
Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and Roque, a variation on croquet, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics. One of the best known croquet clubs is the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, originally the All England Croquet Club, which hosts the annual Wimbledon tennis championships.
There are several variations of croquet currently played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout (particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing courts). Two forms of the game, Association Croquet and Golf Croquet, have rules that are agreed internationally and are played in many countries around the world. More unusual variations of the game include Mondo Croquet, eXtreme Croquet, and Bicycle Croquet.
As well as club-level games, there are regular world championships and international matches between croquet-playing countries. The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, USA, New Zealand and Australia. Many other countries also play.
Some people consider croquet to be viciously competitive. However, the ability in versions other than Golf Croquet to gain extra strokes favour players who position balls with more care, rather than simply as far away from everything else as possible. At championship standard Association Croquet, players can often make all 26 points (13 for each ball) in two turns.
Croquet terms
Backward ball The ball of a side that has scored less hoops (compare with 'forward ball').;
Ball in hand The term when the striker can pick up a ball to changes its position, for example:
(i) any ball when it leaves the court has to be replaced on the yard-line;
(ii) the striker’s ball after making a roquet must be placed in contact with the roqueted ball;
(iii) the striker’s ball when the striker is entitled to a lift.;
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Ball in play A ball after it has been played into the game, which is not a ball in hand or pegged out.;
Bisque, half-bisque A bisque is a free turn in a handicap match. A half-bisque is a restricted handicap turn in which no point may be scored.;
Breakdown To end a turn by making a mistake.;
Continuation stroke Either (i) the bonus stroke played after running a hoop in order or (ii) the second bonus stroke played after making a roquet.;
Croquet (Rhymes with "okay") The croquet is the first bonus shot played after making a roquet. The striker croquets by placing his ball in contact with the roqueted ball and striking his ball so that both balls move.;
Double-banking Playing two games on one croquet lawn at once.;
Double tap A fault in which the mallet makes more than one audible sound when it strikes the ball.;
Forward ball The ball of a side that has scored more hoops (compare with 'backward ball').;
Hoop UK and British Commonwealth term for 'wicket' (US).;
Object ball A ball which is going to be rushed.;
Peg out To cause a rover ball to strike the peg and conclude its active involvement in the game.;
Peel To send a ball other than the striker’s ball through its target hoop.;
Primary colours or First colours The main croquet ball colours used which are blue, red, black and yellow (in order of play). Blue and black, and red and yellow, are played by the same player or pair.;
Push A fault when the mallet pushes the striker’s ball, rather than making a clean strike.;
Roquet (Rhymes with "okay") When the striker’s ball hits a ball that he is entitled to then take a croquet shot with. At the start of a turn, the striker is entitled to roquet all the other three balls once. Once the striker's ball goes through its target hoop, it is again entitled to roquet the other balls once.;
Rover ball A ball that has run all twelve hoops and can be pegged out.;
Rover hoop The last hoop, indicated by a red top bar. The first hoop has a blue top.;
Run a hoop To send the striker’s ball through a hoop. If the hoop is the hoop in order for the striker’s ball, the striker earns a bonus stroke.;
Rush A roquet when the roqueted ball is sent to a specific position on the court, such as the next hoop for the striker’s ball or close to a ball that the striker wishes to roquet next.;
Scatter shot A continuation stroke used to hit a ball which may not be roqueted in order to send it to a less dangerous position.;
Secondary colours or second colours (Also known as Alternate colours) The colours of the balls used in the second game played on the same court in double-banking, green, brown, pink and white (in order of play). Green and pink, and brown and white, are played by the same player or pair.;
Tice A ball sent to a boundary to entice an opponent to shoot at it but miss.;
Wicket US term for 'hoop' (UK).;
Wired When a hoop or the peg impedes the path of a strike ball, or the swing of the mallet.;
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