Croquet is a game played on grass in which the players use long wooden sticks called mallets to hit balls through metal arches. a game played on grass in which players hit balls with wooden mallets (=long-handled hammers) so that they roll under curved wires (from , , from croc , probably from krokr; CROOK). (French dialect for "crook," "hockey stick") Game in which players using mallets drive wooden balls through a series of wickets, or hoops, set out on a lawn. The object is to be the first to complete the course by passing through all the wickets and hitting a goal peg. Croquet evolved from the 13th-century French game pall-mall. Championship matches are organized by governing bodies in the U.S. and Britain
An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern
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