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croquet

sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls
Class type of: ball game, lawn game Q193387

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
type of sport
Subclass of
ball game, lawn game
Country of origin
England, Ireland[4][5]
Described by source
Nordisk familjebok, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7][8][9][10]
Different from
cricket[11]
OpenStreetMap tag
sport=croquet[6]
Practiced by
croquet player[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en croquet ar كروكيه ar الكروكيه cs kroket da krocket es cróquet fa کروکت fi kroketti he קרוקה he קרוקט hu krokett hu croquet ja クローケー ja クロッケー ko 크로케 pl krokiet pt cróquet ru крокет sv croquet vi Bóng vồ
🔖 Identifiers · 31
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85034259
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Modern croquet equipment.JPG ↗
AniDB tag ID
6915
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300222768
BNCF Thesaurus ID
41930
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
144694138
Colon Classification
MY2144
Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català ID
4368
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
23Zh1W
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
29862
Encyclopedia of Melbourne ID
EM00424b
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
sports/croquet
Show all 31 identifiers +19
Fandom article ID
world-sports-results:Croquet
Freebase ID
/m/01yf2
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
krokket
Harper's tag
croquet
IPTC NewsCode
mediatopic/20000889
Iconclass notation
43C4144
Interlingual Index ID
i37866
J9U entity ID
987007533514205171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
croquet
KBpedia ID
Croquet
Lex ID
kroket
Museum-digital tag ID
72416, 79480
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
Category:Bakuman
Quora topic ID
Croquet
Topic's main category
Category:Croquet
Wellcome Collection concept ID
jp6q2gg3
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
00467948-n
YSO ID
16844
Yale LUX ID
concept/e353db16-ecb1-49af-9487-7a1eb28038bb

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🔗 Connections
← Sport 16
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Compton Mackenzie, Smouha SC, Chrétien Waydelich, Gaston Aumoitte, Jacques Sautereau, Maurice Vignerot +8 more
Country of origin 2
Ireland, England
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Nordisk familjebok
Different from 1
cricket
Instance of 1
type of sport
Subclass of 1
ball game
Subtypes 1
roque
Topic's main category 1
Category:Croquet
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Croquet in France
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Croquet
← Depicts 1
The Croquet Game
← Different from 1
cricket
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Summary

croquet is a type of sport[1]. croquet is a type of ball game[2] and lawn game[3].

Related Entities

England Ireland

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID → Category:Bakuman
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48943: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → croquet
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: croquet, Matched to croquet (#289923953) in Harper's tag #mix'n'm"
  3. 18w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 23Zh1W
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  4. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → ball game, lawn game
    Instance of → type of sport
    Practiced by → croquet player
    Topic's main category → Category:Croquet
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 16844, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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