Sentence examples for rectangular court from inspiring English sources
Basketball, game played between two teams of five players each on a rectangular court, usually indoors.
It decided on a rectangular court 78 feet (23.8 metres) long by 27 feet (8.2 metres) wide.
In the rectangular court between the two buildings was a statue of Zeus Horkios ("Zeus Who Presides over Oaths").
On the eve of the conquest, games took place in a rectangular court bordered on the long sides by walls with both sloping and vertical rebound surfaces.
The rectangular court is 44 feet (13.4 metres) long and 17 feet (5.2 metres) wide for singles, 20 feet (6.1 metres) wide for doubles.
The international version of squash is played on an enclosed rectangular court that is 9.75 m (32 ft) long and about 6.4 m (21 ft) wide.
Children mistook the rectangular courts for sandboxes.
A favourite form of recreation was a ball game played on rectangular courts.
The hourglass shape, stipulated by Wingfield in his booklet "Sphairistiké, or Lawn Tennis," may have been adopted for patent reasons since it distinguished the court from ordinary rectangular courts.
Originally Wingfield's lawn tennis court was an hour-glass shape which may have been adopted for patent reasons as it set it apart from the more familiar rectangular courts.
The MCC rules were not universally adhered to following its publication and, among others, the Prince's Club in London stuck to playing on rectangular courts.
