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Lacrosse Stick

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Lacrosse Stick

The netted stick used in North America's oldest team sport/Sports

The lacrosse stick (or crosse) consists of a shaft with a head containing a mesh pocket for catching, carrying, and shooting the ball. The sport originated with Indigenous peoples of eastern North America. Men's and women's sticks differ in pocket depth and head width regulations.

Measurements

Overall length (attack)1.07 m
5.9 tenthsBookcase heights
214,000Spider silk threads
Head width1.8 tenths m
2.5 hundredthsExtension ladders
1.5 tenthsCoffee table lengths
9.8 thousandthsBowling lanes
Head length2.5 tenths m
8.6 hundredthsCondor wingspans
6.56Silver dollar diameters
Mass3.5 tenths kg
29.2 millionthsEmpty dump trucks
23.8 billionthsBrooklyn Bridge masses
3.8 tenthsBags of sugar
Shaft diameter3 hundredths m
375 millionthsCity blocks
1.7 trillionthsLight-minutes
Pocket depth6 hundredths m
2 thousandthsLighthouse heights
1.71Banana widths
1.3 tenthsOffice chair heights
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