Badminton

📖 In short

Badminton is a game where players use light rackets to hit a small shuttlecock over a high net. The shuttlecock has a round cork base surrounded by feathers or nylon in a cone shape, so it flies in an amazing way!

🤩 Did you know?

A shuttlecock can fly at more than 300 kilometers an hour.
The first basic rules of the game were written in England in 1895.
The International Badminton Federation was founded in 1934.
Asian countries like China, Indonesia and Malaysia are among the strongest at this game.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 How do we play?

The player hits the shuttlecock over the net into their opponent's court and tries to make it land on the ground there. If it lands in their own court or outside the lines, the opponent gets a point.

🔍 An amazing shuttlecock

The shuttlecock is very light and flies slowly if hit gently, but hit hard it becomes one of the fastest things in all of sport, then slows down quickly because of its feathers.

💡 From India to the world

British officers in India learned an old game called “poona” and took it to England, where it was named after “Badminton” House, where it was played.

🎯 A game for everyone

Badminton can be played in the garden or on the beach for fun, or in an indoor hall for official matches, because wind blows the shuttlecock off course. It's played one against one or two against two.