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Originally posted by Red Night
google it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/badminton/4162622.stm

http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=BD

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Originally posted by Virtue76
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/badminton/4162622.stm

http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=BD
I don't have time, are these sites that refer to it as a racket?

If so, yes I agree it is called a racket. It is also sometimes called a bat.

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Originally posted by Red Night
I don't have time, are these sites that refer to it as a racket?

If so, yes I agree it is called a racket. It is also sometimes called a bat.
You can admit your wrong you know.

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Originally posted by Red Night
It is sometimes called a bat.

And I forgot table tennis where the paddle is also sometimes called a bat.
Sometimes = Usually 🙂

I'd never call a badminton racquet a bat, but I would classify badminton along with other "bat and ball" sports.

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Originally posted by mtthw
Sometimes = Usually 🙂

I'd never call a badminton racquet a bat, but I would classify badminton along with other "bat and ball" sports.
Google Fight = Badminton Racquet beats Badminton Bat by 2 to 1.

However, 553,000 references to Badminton Bats ought to be enough to justify my use of the word "sometimes"

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=badminton+bat&word2=badminton+racquet

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FOOTBALL/ Soccer /futbol... whatever... BUT IS FOOTBALL THE BEST SPORT EVER!

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Curling is a good one

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Originally posted by MoneyManMike
Curling is a good one
FOOTBALL!

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Originally posted by darvlay
Is that Baseball or Hockey? 😕
Actually it is field hockey.

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Originally posted by Red Night
It is sometimes called a bat.

And I forgot table tennis where the paddle is also sometimes called a bat.
Not a chance. A racket has strings.
The thing you use to hit a shuttlecock has strings - hence badminton racket.

Anybody who refers to it as a bat is obviously a retard.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Who cares what others call it. Do you not understand the term "soccer"? Would you tell a German that he's wrong when he calls it Fussball?

In Ireland, we have our own indigenous Football, so we call soccer soccer and Gaelic Football football.

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So who are you voting for ?

Which sport ?

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Originally posted by mtthw
Too right. Anyway, surely it's "footy".

For best solo sport - are we talking to play or to watch? To watch, I'd probably say tennis.
BOth...which ever you prefer.

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Originally posted by Red Night
Google Fight = Badminton Racquet beats Badminton Bat by 2 to 1.

However, 553,000 references to Badminton Bats ought to be enough to justify my use of the word "sometimes"

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=badminton+bat&word2=badminton+racquet
Google Fight is crap that's why - it's getting results for the phrase badminton.

Google the full phrase:
"badminton bat" = 844
"badminton racket" = 225,000
"badminton racquet" = 73,600

Case closed.

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