badminton, knocked out of , shuttlecock

Wang Shixian knocked out of badminton's Japan Open
AFP
TOKYO — World number two Wang Shixian crashed out to Juliane Schenk in the women's singles quarter-finals at the Japan Open on Friday as her top seeded compatriot Wang Yihan battled her way into the semis. The Asian Games gold medallist let a narrow ...

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their opponents' half of the court. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. A rally ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor.

shúttlecòck[shúttle・còck]

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1 （バドミントン・羽根突きの）羽根, シャトルコック.

2 [U]羽根突き遊び.

━━[動](他)…を行ったり来たりさせる.

━━(自)やりとりされる.

Battledore and Shuttlecock. 1854, from the John Leech Archive[1]