bad·min·ton
noun/ˈbædmɪntən/
/ˈbædmɪntən/
[uncountable]- a game like tennis played by two or four people, usually indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally with feathers around it (= a shuttlecock) across a high net using a racket.
enlarge image羽毛球运动 Oxford Collocations DictionaryBadminton is used before these nouns:- club
- racket
Word Originnamed after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort.