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🪀 A ball-on-string toy 🏓 A paddle sport
paddleball

paddleball

1 4.2
A sport played with flat paddles to hit a small rubber ball against a wall or over a net
  • noun
  • /ˈpædəlˌbɔl/
translation icon : paddleball
  • We enjoyed a lively match of paddleball at the beach, hitting the ball back and forth against the wall.

Examples

  • All the while we were talking, I was holding in the back of my mind the hope that Mark James was having a good time at the beach, that he wouldn't, yet again, lose at paddleball with the Weirs' strange son, whom I try so hard to sympathize with: his mother about to run off; his father cuckolded; the family collapsing.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • And then, they played a friendly game of paddleball!

    Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017)

  • The community center offers classes for beginners interested in learning paddleball and improving their skills.

  • During the summer, many kids gather at the park to play paddleball with their friends on the courts.

Synonyms

Ping-Pong
vspaddleball
15 1.6

A game like tennis played on a table using small paddles and a light ball

is played by hitting a rubber ball against a wall or over a net

How Fast

tennis
436 1.0
racquetball
  • US
21 4.0
squash
21 3.2
paddleball
1 4.2
table tennis
8 1.4

Surface Forms

paddleball singular
paddleballs plural

Morphology

paddleball = paddle + ball (transparent) = paddle + ball

The compound meaning ('a ball used with paddles' or 'a game involving paddles and a ball') is clear and directly derivable from its parts.

Etymology

Paddleball also combines paddle and ball to name a sport where players use solid paddles to hit a small ball against a wall or over a net. So the word tells you exactly what the game is: using a paddle to play with a ball.