a game like tennis played by two or four people, usually indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally with feathers around it (= a shuttlecock) across a high net using a racket. 羽毛球运动 Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1Oxford Collocations DictionaryBadminton is used before these nouns:- club
- racket
Word Originnamed after Badminton in SW England, country seat of the Duke of Beaufort.