Meaning

(Commonwealth) Alternative form of racket (“implement with a handle connected to a round frame”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Commonwealth) Alternative form of racket (“implement with a handle connected to a round frame”).
2. To hit with a racquet.
3. To play a game that involves using a racquet.
4. To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
5. To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth.

Example Sentences

After yet another mid-court volley error, Serena got so upset that she smashed her racquet deep into the clay court. The racquet was unusable after that, and when she went to her bag to grab another, she found that all her other racquets had broken strings.

You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say.

Potter drove up along the wire fence of the yard, and there on the tennis court, a kid racqueted a ball against a brick wall behind the courts.

One of the tennis center's satellite courts was lit to near daylight brightness by white floodlights; as I approached I could hear the steady, dry pock . . . pock of a tennis ball being racqueted back and forth.

When he isn't racqueting, Brad claims he puts in the time with Alfred Dunhill of London.

...played no games as a boy, but since he did me that good turn I have racqueted about happily.

I arrived to find a tennis foursome - architect & his wife, you & my mother, racquetting through a country english afternoon just as it's been bonged since Shakespeare penned his pages.

Flashlights in hand, they made their way down the slope and racqueted out upon the lake.

Word Forms

• racquets
• racqueting
• racqueted

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When Should You Use Racquet?

Use racquet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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