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Sign in to savethumb|Leon Wyczółkowski, A Game of Croquet (1892–1895), National Museum, [[Warsaw]] Croquet ( or ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Croquet
- Sport.image
- Modern croquet equipment.JPG
- Sport.imagesize
- 300px
- Sport.caption
- Modern croquet equipment
- Sport.union
- World Croquet Federation (WCF) (association and golf) United States Croquet Association (USCA) (6-wicket and 9-wicket)
- Sport.first
- 1856, England
- Sport.contact
- No
- Sport.team
- Singles, doubles, and team events
- Sport.type
- Mallet sport
- Sport.equipment
- Mallet, balls, hoops or wickets
- Sport.olympic
- Only in 1900 Summer Olympics
- Sport.paralympic
- No
- Sport.IWGA
- No
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Variations
- Association croquet
- Golf croquet
- American six-wicket
- Nine-wicket
- International croquet
- History
- French origin theory
- Irish origin theory
- Heyday and decline
- Glossary of terms
- In art and literature
- Clubs
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Leon Wyczółkowski, A Game of Croquet (1892–1895), National Museum, [[Warsaw]] Croquet ( or ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
The sport was codified in England in the 1860s and then spread overseas. However, similar games have been recorded back to the late Middle Ages. Today, there are several variations of the game.