n.
Singles or doubles game played in a four-walled court with a long-handled racket and a rubber ball.
A descendant of rackets , it probably originated in the mid-19th century at England's Harrow School . The standard international game uses a relatively soft, slow ball; hardball squash, popular in the U.S., is played on a narrower court with a harder, faster ball. The object of squash is to bounce, or rebound, the ball off the front wall in such a way as to defeat an opponent's attempt to reach and return it.