A variant of the game croquet, typically played on a smaller, harder court with tighter boundaries.
Derived from 'croquet,' which itself came from French 'croquete' meaning a game played with mallets and balls. Roque emerged as an American simplified variant in the late 1800s.
Roque was so popular in early 1900s America that it was actually an Olympic sport in 1904, and now it's nearly forgotten—a reminder of how sports and cultural games completely change what people care about over just a century.
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