Xare is racquet sport, a form of Basque pelota. The racquet (called an Argentine racquet) is made of a hoop in hazel or chestnut wood, and is somewhat loosely strung—the ball is not exactly struck, nor is is quite caught—the effect is somewhere in between. The ball is very hard, and covered by parchment. The game is played in a special indoor court, called a trinquete. For xare a net is strung across the middle of the trinquete, and the players face each other, as in real tennis. The players wear helmets. The following is a list of sports, divided by category. ... Pelota (in Basque and Catalan, pilota; in French pelote, from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using ones hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in Spanish, frontoi in Basque, front... Categories: Sports stubs ... This article is about the tree; for other meanings of hazel, see Hazel (disambiguation). ... Species - Bush Chinkapin* - Japanese Chestnut - American Chestnut - Henrys Chestnut - Chinese Chestnut - Ozark Chinkapin - Alleghany Chinkapin - Sweet Chestnut - Seguins Chestnut * treated as a synonym of by many authors Chestnuts (Castanea), including the chinkapins, are a genus of eight or nine species of trees and shrubs in the beech family... A trinquete (also trinquet) is a special court for various indoor versions of pelota. ... Real tennis is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. ...