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What (who) is Croquet - definition
SPORT THAT INVOLVES HITTING PLASTIC OR WOODEN BALLS
Croquet mallet; Croquet ball; Association croquet; Association Croquet; Lead off striker; History of croquet; Croquet court; Croquet lawn
![Croquet being played recreationally in [[Wetherby]], [[West Yorkshire]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2014 BL Wetherby Yorkshire Prof 15.jpg?width=200 "Croquet being played recreationally in [[Wetherby]], [[West Yorkshire]]")
![Early croquet-like game from ''The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England'', first published 1801. Hoop, peg, and two players with balls clearly shown. Such implements in [[ground billiards]] games date to [[classical antiquity]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EarlyCroquetSportsofPeopleofEnglandStrutt.jpg?width=200 "Early croquet-like game from ''The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England'', first published 1801. Hoop, peg, and two players with balls clearly shown. Such implements in [[ground billiards]] games date to [[classical antiquity]].")
![''[[The Croquet Game]]'', [[Édouard Manet]], 1873](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edouard Manet 012.jpg?width=200 "''[[The Croquet Game]]'', [[Édouard Manet]], 1873")
![Eglinton Castle]], North Ayrshire, in the early 1860s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eglington1.JPG?width=200 "Eglinton Castle]], North Ayrshire, in the early 1860s")
![Trouville]], 1872), private collection](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louise Abbéma - A Game of Croquet.jpg?width=200 "Trouville]], 1872), private collection")
![[[Paille-maille]] (pall-mall) illustrated in ''Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs'', published 1891. Original image by Lauthier, 1717.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pall Mall - Project Gutenberg eText 14315.jpg?width=200 "[[Paille-maille]] (pall-mall) illustrated in ''Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs'', published 1891. Original image by Lauthier, 1717.")
![National Museum]], [[Warsaw]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wyczółkowski Game of croquet.jpg?width=200 "National Museum]], [[Warsaw]]")
croquet
n. to play croquet
Croquet
·noun The act of Croqueting.
II. Croquet ·vt In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
III. Croquet ·noun An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
croquet
Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches.
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Croquet
Croquet (UK: or US: ; French: croquet) is a sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Its international governing body is the World Croquet Federation.
Examples of use of Croquet
1. Prescott then made the second mistake of playing croquet.
2. Prescott plays croquet at Dorneywood Look here too...
3. England‘s most notorious croquet player has handed in his mallet.
4. The faultless croquet lawn, unused on Saturday, but a reminder of the fact that the club was founded when croquet was the senior game.
5. "Croquet is an incredibly aggressive and entertaining game.