Croquet

:For the Dutch food item, see Croquette. For the Smalltalk based 3D environment, see Croquet project.

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Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.

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The game was apparently invented in Ireland in the 1830s and taken to England as a pastime of the aristocracy in the 1850s. It may have evolved from the earlier mallet and ball game pall mall. It made its way to the United States, Australia, and France, and whilst never hugely popular has continued to maintain a substantial following.

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It was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Roque, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics is believed to have been a variation.

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Variations of the game include eXtreme Croquet and Bicycle Croquet.

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Croquette: A croquette is a small fried food roll containing usually as main ingredients mashed potatoes, and/or minced meat (veal, beef, chicken, or turkey), shellfish, fish, vegetables, and soaked white bread, egg, onion, spices and herbs, wine, milk, or any of the combination thereof, sometimes with a fill...

Smalltalk: Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective, programming language designed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, Adele Goldberg, and others during the 1970s, influenced by Sketchpad and Simula. The language was generally released as Smalltalk-80 and has been widely...

Croquet project: The Croquet project seeks to offer an open source networked 3D environment for collaborative work. The Squeak programming environment serves as a foundation. While its primary target is in the educational area it is conceived from the start as a series of shared worlds which can be created in othe...

Croquet related Images and Photos (experimental)

Croquet	Croquet on a Sandy Beach	Une Partie de Croquet	Advertisement for Cadbury's Cocoa Showing a Croquet Game c.1899
Alice with the Duchess at the Croquet Match	Gentleman Enjoy a Game of Pall Mall a French Hybrid of Golf and Croquet Played