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    A shuttlecock (also called a birdie or shuttle) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape formed by feathers...
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    Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms...
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    Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is a sport related to the professional sport of badminton. The game is played by two or more people using...
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    Jianzi (redirect from Foot shuttlecock)
    traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar...
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    a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly coloured shuttlecock, called a hane. Often played by girls at the New Year, the game can be...
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  • Shuttlecock is a 1993 French-British thriller film directed by Andrew Piddington and starring Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson and Kenneth Haigh. It is based...
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    Cresta Run (redirect from Shuttlecock Club)
    "Firework", the "Shuttlecock Club" and a dedicated drink, the "Bullshot". The highlight of the Shuttlecock Club is the yearly Shuttlecock Dinner. The dinner...
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    Matteuccia (redirect from Shuttlecock fern)
    Matteuccia struthiopteris (common names ostrich fern, fiddlehead fern, or shuttlecock fern). The species epithet struthiopteris comes from Ancient Greek words...
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    covered with a textured surface. Badminton Ball badminton Battledore and shuttlecock Crossminton (previously "Speedminton") Frontenis Qianball Racketlon (a...
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  • Shuttlecock, described as a psychological thriller, was Graham Swift's second novel, published in 1981 by Allen Lane. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial...
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    with a "hand shuttlecock" from indigenous origins and reputed to be as old as the country itself. The same name is given to the shuttlecock-object itself...
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    The Corsican Shuttlecock or a Pretty Plaything for the Allies is an 1814 satirical cartoon by the British illustrator George Cruikshank. The print is...
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    Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Waterland (1992), Shuttlecock (1993), Last Orders (1996) and Mothering Sunday (2021). His novel Last...
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  • Shuttlecock Boys is an independent film directed by Hemant Gaba & produced by Pankaj Johar and Hemant Gaba. It's a film made by all first timers in the...
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    Volva volva is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae (false cowries). In Australia the shells are commonly referred...
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  • The Shuttlecock at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games was held from December 12 to December 16 at the Beung Kha Nong Sports Centre Gymnasium 1 in Vientiane...
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    similar to association football. In jianzi, players attempt to keep a shuttlecock from falling to the ground by hitting it with any part of their bodies...
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    products ranging from badminton and squash rackets, sportswear, shoes, shuttlecocks, and other equipment for the sport. Its products are among the ones approved...
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    Since 2019, she focused on OTT with Zee5's series "Chargesheet: The Shuttlecock Murder", in the MX Player web series "Cheesecake" as Chaaru, an animal...
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  • who used hopping leg action to compensate the lateral gap to reach the shuttlecock, Liem effectively used a higher vertical leap in executing his smash...
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    the first rules for the game were drawn up in 1873. (Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, but the modern game of...
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    the museum itself) is well known for Shuttlecocks, a four-part outdoor sculpture of oversized badminton shuttlecocks, standing 18 feet tall, by Claes Oldenburg...
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  • net with similar rules to volleyball but instead of a ball, a large shuttlecock, sometimes also called an indiaca, or featherball is used; this consists...
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    a basket, is a fitting resembling a shuttlecock, attached at its narrow end (like the "cork" nose of a shuttlecock) with a valve to a flexible hose. The...
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  • Lockwood, Dave (23 July 2024). "Recycled bottle tops and tables made from shuttlecocks – the greenest Olympics?". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 23...
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    stokoei (pink sugarbush) Protea sect. Exsertae Protea aurea (common shuttlecock sugarbush) Protea lacticolor (Hottentot sugarbush) Protea mundii (forest...
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    Sport Shop". Bauer developed and patented a standardized shuttlecock in 1934. The Bauer Shuttlecock popularized badminton in the United States. While operating...
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  • Beach shuttlecock competition at the 2016 Asian Beach Games was held in Danang, Vietnam from 26 to 30 September 2016 at Phuong Trang Area, Danang, Vietnam...
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    Sporting balls such as cricket ball, lawn tennis ball, squash ball, shuttlecock, and other high speed flying objects can strike the eye. The eye is also...
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  • join, but she mocks him and says he is only good at kicking a jianzi shuttlecock. Wei follows Huang to a bakery where she meets with the dean secretly...
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