squash racket

1 3.4

A light piece of sports equipment with a long handle and a small oval head used to play squash

noun
/skwɑʃ ˈrækɪt/

: raqueta de squash

Please remember to bring your squash racket to practice tomorrow.

Examples

She bought a new squash racket yesterday.
Do you have a squash racket I can borrow?
He bought a new squash racket before joining the club tournament.
Her old squash racket was too heavy, so she replaced it with a lighter one.
Before the match, I carefully checked my squash racket for any damage.
He bought a new squash racket to improve his game at the club.
The coach taught her the proper grip for holding a squash racket during practice.

Synonyms

racket

vssquash racket

43 1.6

A handled frame with tight strings used to hit a ball in tennis

is designed for a particular sport rather than general strung versions

How Big

baseball bat

66 1.0

cricket bat

1 2.2

bat

244 1.0

tennis racket

11 1.4

squash racket

1 3.4

table-tennis racquet

2.8

Surface Forms

squash racket singular

squash rackets plural

Morphology

squash + racket

The meaning 'a racket used for playing squash' is directly derivable from combining 'squash' (the game) with 'racket' (a strung implement), a straightforward noun–noun compound. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard naming for sports equipment, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Squash racket comes from the name of the game squash, which was called that because players used a soft ball that would get 'squashed' when it hit the wall, and racket is the long-handled tool used to hit the ball. So a squash racket is simply the racket made for that game.