Squash (sport)
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players (or in doubles 4 players on court at a time) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. For its fast pace and requirement of mental agility, it has been described as "jet-propelled chess".
The game was formerly called squash racquets, a reference to the "squashable" soft ball used in the game (compared with the fatter ball used in its parent game racquets or rackets; see below).
An effort is underway to qualify squash as an event in the 2020 Olympic Games.
Read more about Squash (sport): History, Playing Equipment, Referee, Types of Shots Played, Strategy and Tactics, Interference and Obstruction, Cultural, Social, and Health Aspects, Squash Around The World, Players and Records, Wider Acceptance
Famous quotes containing the word squash:
“I am filling the room
with the words from my pen.
Words leak out of it like a miscarriage.
I am zinging words out into the air
and they come back like squash balls.
Yet there is silence.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)