n.
Game for two or four players with ball and racket on a four-walled court.
Rackets is played with a hard ball in a relatively large court (approximately 9 00D7; 18 m), unlike the related games of squash and racquetball . As in these other games, the object of rackets is to bounce, or rebound, the ball off the front and other walls in such a way as to defeat an opponent's attempt to reach and return it. It appears to have developed in England in the early 19th century.