COURT GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does court game mean? 

• COURT GAME (noun)
  The noun COURT GAME has 1 sense:

1. an athletic game played on a court

  Familiarity information: COURT GAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURT GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An athletic game played on a court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("court game" is a kind of...):

athletic game (a game involving athletic activity)

Domain member category:

server ((court games) the player who serves to start a point)

volley (make a volley)

serve (put the ball into play)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court game"):

handball (a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands)

racquetball (a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets)

fives (a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls)

squash; squash rackets; squash racquets (a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets)

volleyball; volleyball game (a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands)

jai alai; pelota (a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket)

badminton (a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net)

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)

deck tennis (game played mainly on board ocean liners; players toss a ring back and forth over a net that is stretched across a small court)

netball (a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post)

lawn tennis; tennis (a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court)

pallone (an Italian game similar to tennis)