Court sport, in slang

Usage examples of hoops.

Funny his name should be Hooper, she thought, with all the references to wheels and hollows and hoops she had been reading.

But only another unbuttoning from the arrangement of straps was required, and the hoops collapsed around her feet in a ring of concentric circles.

He described to her the London fashions: how gowns were pinned rather closer than before, hoops as flat as though made of pasteboard and as stiff, the shape sloping from the hips and spreading at the bottom, enormous but not so ugly as the square hoops.

About her were seated, their hoops spreading wide around them, the Misses Gwendolyn and Frances Brownrigg and the great Mrs.

These most incredible dresses, Brandy tells me, the constructed ball gowns, the engineered evening dresses with their hoops and strapless bodices, their stand-up horseshoe collars and flaring shoulders, nipped waists, their stand-away peplums and bones, they never last very long.

A rifle in her hands, her wedding dress burned down to the steel hoops, the silk flowers in her hair burned down to their wire skeletons, all her blonde hair burned off, Evie does her slow step-pause-step down the stairs with a rifle pointed right at Brandy Alexander.

The hoops of the pulse tunnel were perhaps twelve feet in diameter, and stretched for what looked to be a hundred yards or more.

Doctor and the pulse tunnel moved together through the hoops which folded back into one hoop.

At the end of an hour and a half the nine frills were on the skirt, the long hoops of wire had been run in, and the hooks and eyes on the belt.

So they open their jaws wide, they sit up, they jump through paper-covered hoops, they crawl through tubes, they walk backwards, they roll over.

You score points by hitting your ball through a course of six wickets twice, the four outside hoops, the center hoops, then back again in the opposite direction.

If your ball hits another ball, you get a croquet stroke and a continuation stroke, but if your ball goes through two hoops in one stroke, you only get one stroke.

The players have to get their balls through the hoops in the quickest possible time, so it can be quite rough.

From this distance the hoops were almost invisible, but their positions were marked by large white circles painted on the turf.

Alf should know as he had been a pro for the Slough Bombers and retired with 7,892 career hoops, a record yet to be beaten.