Definition of badminton noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

badminton

noun

ˈbædmɪntən badminton pronunciation American

ˈbædmɪntən

[uncountable]

a game like tennis played by two or four people, usually indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally with feathers around it (= a shuttlecock ) across a high net using a racket.