"badminton" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a sport played with rackets and a shuttlecock, usually between two players. Example sentence: My favorite hobby is playing badminton with my friends.
It got him thinking: why does everyone feel the need to purchase their own private set of consumer items – a hammer, a tent, a badminton racket – that everyone else has, and that lie unused most of the time?
I was always a general sportsman and liked them all at school and growing up – but if I had to pick … badminton".
Most homes have TVs and a few carry smartphones, but the pier draws them out each night to play badminton, as crows and red kites cascade overhead, glancing down at the goats, chickens, pigs and dogs that busy themselves around piles of rubbish.
Those rules are that 1) the wrestlers should be in their late 50s and look alarmingly close to death, 2) all wrestling should take place in a regional leisure centre's disused badminton court, and 3) every match should teeter permanently on the brink of being disrupted by an overzealous old lady climbing into the ring from the audience and angrily waving her umbrella about.
In tennis, with notable exceptions such as Boris Becker or Patrick Rafter, big players find it harder to bend down for the volley; in the confined quarters of a squash court, tall players may trip over their own feet; on the badminton court it is agility and speed that count, hence the supremacy of the Chinese and Indonesians.
So, too, baseball, field hockey and racket sports such as tennis, squash and badminton.
All that had gone before in his life, keeping himself fit (he was three times Canada's badminton champion), gaining business experience as a property developer in the United States, were matters preparing him for the big thing.
The film is like an extended music video, mixing footage of Mr Callahan on stage with montages of American life to complement the mood of his stripped-back steady baritone: bulldozers and bails of hay on a flatbed truck; fireworks in the sky above a carwash; American-flag Budweiser cans by a backyard badminton game; a skateboarder pulling on his backpack as he weaves down a hill.
In "To You, the Birdie!" ("Phèdre"), the action was reconstructed around a badminton game, shuttlecocks landing on the ground to the sound of shattered crockery.There is a trick, too, behind their "Hamlet".
Gail Emms, a former silver medallist in badminton who now works as a sports consultant, said it would have been "disgraceful" if the match-throwers had been allowed to advance.But as in every other walk of life, counting on athletes' better angels when their incentives encourage them to misbehave is a hopeless proposition.
When Manchester's games are finished, the site should have championship-standard indoor tennis, squash and cycling centres, athletics facilities, and a badminton and netball hall.
