pickleball

English

A pickleball.

Alternative forms

Etymology

pickle + ball

Noun

pickleball (countable and uncountable, plural pickleballs)

  1. (uncountable) A racquet sport, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis.
    • 2022 February 19, Shannon Mullen, “America's fastest growing sport is a cross between tennis, ping pong, and badminton”, in National, NPR, retrieved 2022-02-19:
      For the rapidly decreasing number of Americans who've never heard of pickleball, the obscure paddleball game is America's fastest growing sport for the second year in a row.
  2. (countable) The ball used in the sport of pickleball.
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