Rapid ball or rapid-ball is a relatively new sport derived from squash and racquetball. It was invented by Peter V. Haighton in order to create a game similar to squash, but less taxing on one's legs and joints. It is played by two players on a standard squash court, using racquetball equipment, including a ball that rebounds much farther than the comparatively "dead" ball used in squash, thus requiring less running.
Read more about Rapid Ball: External Links
Famous quotes containing the words rapid and/or ball:
“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
—Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)