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badminton Badminton is a racket sport played using hit a shuttlecock across a net Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlec ock with the racket and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court. Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia , [a] but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the British as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock . ("Battledore" was an older term for "racket".) [4] Its exact origin remains obscure. The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort 's Badminton Hous...