Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or a shuttlecock. A racket has a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings. A paddle, sometimes called a bat, has a solid face rather than a network of strings, but may be perforated with a pattern of holes, or be covered with a textured surface.
Racketlon, a racket sport quadrathlon, is a multisport competition in which participants compete in a series of four separate racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis.
Sports that use a netted racket
- Air badminton
- Badminton
- Ball badminton
- Battledore and shuttlecock
- Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
- Frontenis
- Longue paume
- Qianball
- Rackets
- Racquetball
- Real tennis
- Soft tennis
- Speed-ball
- Squash
- Hardball squash
- Squash tennis
- Squash 57
- Stické
- Tennis
- Touchtennis
- Tennis polo
- Xare
Sports that use a solid-faced paddle
- Basque pelota
- Beach tennis
- Chaza
- Downside ball game
- Four wall paddleball
- Frescobol
- Frescotennis
- Hanetsuki
- Jokari
- Jombola
- Matkot
- Miniten
- One wall paddleball
- Paddle ball
- Paddle tennis
- Padel
- Paleta Frontón
- Pang Pong
- Pelota mixteca
- Pickleball
- Platform tennis
- Road tennis
- Roliball
- Spectennis
- Sphairee
- Stoolball
- Table squash
- Table tennis (Ping Pong)
- Hardbat
- Tamburello
- Tambourelli
- Totem tennis
- Queensball
See also
- Basque pelota
- Bat-and-ball games
- List of stick sports
- Pallone