At the end of the first quarter, Parker bounced a pass ahead to Ginóbili - by going through the legs of an unsuspecting Okur as if he were knocking the ball through a croquet wicket.

For example, three copper hoops, from 13 to 16 inches high, look as though they were born as croquet wickets.

Then she took the big flashlight from the hook, shut the pantry door firmly behind her, and ran across the lawn, tripping over the croquet wicket.

On its east lawn, croquet wickets are set up permanently for those who want to play.

And there are board games, banners, mechanized model players, croquet wickets, a whirligig and signs, like the red double-sided one for Red Rolfe's service station.

From her vantage point, the rainbows were lined up like croquet wickets.

SCIENTISTS have found direct evidence for the theory that sunspots are caused by curved magnetic fields that stick out from the Sun like croquet wickets.

Mu waves have been studied since the 1930s, and are referred to as the wicket rhythm because the rounded EEG waves resemble croquet wickets.

Professor Wurzle was quick to catch on, and the two sat as still as a pair of croquet wickets for the space of a long minute.

But sometimes the currencies summon up images - flattened helmets, say, or croquet wickets - for today's viewers that were not intended by their makers, who never saw such objects.