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Encyclopedia > Doubles

The term doubles as used in sports like tennis and badminton refers to games with two players on each side. Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... This article is about the racquet sport badminton. ...


Doubles conventionally offer a standardised method of breaking down stereotype gender divisions in sporting contests. Note the existence (in tennis, say) of mens' doubles, womens' doubles and mixed doubles.


Doubles or partnerships have unique psychological dynamics as they fit neither into standard team sports nor into individual sports categories. This offers particular challenges in coaching. In the common law, a partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which they have all invested. ... A team comprises any group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. ... A coach is a person who teaches and directs another person via encouragement and advice. ...


Doubles also refers to a mode of play in the video game Dance Dance Revolution, where one player uses both sides of the machine to play. Though the technical term for this mode is "Double Play", the colloquial term among players is "doubles". Dance Dance Revolution, or DDR (known as Dancing Stage in Europe), is a music video game series introduced by Konami in 1998. ...



Doubles is also used as a term in English Change Ringing, describing a ringing method rung on five church bells. Doubles is the most common group of methods rung in the United Kingdom, since 90% of parish churches with bell towers in the UK are only fitted with six bells. Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called changes, without attempting to ring a conventional tune. ... A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ...


Doubles is a West Indian food originating in Trinidad and Tobago consisting of 2 peices of fluffy fried dough seasoned with tumeric (Bara) wrapped around curried channa or chick peas topped with Roast pepper (pepper choka), mango kutchela, sweet mango, mango chutney, pepper, chadon beni, cucumber, sweet tamarind, and coconut chutney to name a few. Doubles are often sold in stands on the roadside.


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