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rackets

noun
1
An indoor court sport, ancestor of squash, played by hitting a ball against the walls with a racket.
"Rackets was once a popular game at British public schools."

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In plain EnglishThe plural form is also the name of an old racket-and-ball court game, the forerunner of squash.

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