Croquet is a multi-user Java simulation of the classic lawn game.

An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.

a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg