Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or a shuttlecock.12 A racket has a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings. A paddle, sometimes called a bat, has a solid face rather than a network of strings, but may be perforated with a pattern of holes, or be covered with a textured surface.
Racketlon, a racket sport quadrathlon, is a multisport competition in which participants compete in a series of four separate racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis.
Sports that use a netted racket
- Air badminton
- Badminton
- Ball badminton
- Battledore and shuttlecock
- Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
- Frontenis
- Longue paume
- Qianball
- Rackets
- Racquetball
- Real tennis
- Soft tennis
- Speed-ball
- Squash
- Squash tennis
- Squash 57
- Stické
- Tennis
- Touchtennis
- Tennis polo
- Xare
Sports that use a solid-faced paddle
- Basque pelota
- Beach tennis
- Chaza
- Downside ball game
- Four wall paddleball
- Frescobol
- Frescotennis
- Hanetsuki
- Jokari
- Jombola
- Matkot
- Miniten
- One wall paddleball
- Paddle ball
- Paddle tennis
- Padel
- Paleta Frontón
- Pang Pong
- Pelota mixteca
- Pickleball
- Platform tennis
- Road tennis
- Roliball
- Spectennis
- Sphairee
- Stoolball
- Table squash
- Table tennis (Ping Pong)
- Tamburello
- Tambourelli
- Totem tennis
- Queensball
References
References
- "What is a Racquet Sports?". RacketWarriors.com. Racket Warriors. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- "List of Racket/Racquet Sports". topendsports.com. Topend Sports. Archived from the original on September 10, 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.