whiffle

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Pickleball is played with a paddle and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2022

You play with big wooden paddles, and the ball is basically a whiffle ball, plastic and perforated so it slows down in flight and doesn’t bounce very high.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2020

Although, she does have a knack for tossing those little whiffle balls into the most unreachable places possible.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 14, 2020

Rivera, 27, thinks that all the swings he took with light plastic whiffle ball bats may have helped him develop his hand-eye coordination and compact swing.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2016

Watson is apt to whiffle about, though a prime fellow, if you can once fasten to him, and get him into blue water.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore