Badminton is a game in which opposing players use rackets to hit a shuttle, also called a shuttlecock, back and forth over a net. British officials in India learned the game, known as poona, and took it to England. It was played at Badminton, Gloucestershire, country home of the Duke of Beaufort, in 1873. From there, the game took its English name. Beginning in 1992, badminton became a medal sport in the Summer Olympic Games.