MediumWordplay
"I fly at dusk, I am swung at cricket and baseball, and you do me with your eyelashes. What word am I?"
Answer
Bat
Explanation
'Bat' is three things at once: the night-flying mammal, the wooden club used in cricket and baseball, and the verb for fluttering your eyelashes.
This is a medium riddle in the Wordplay category — Riddles that play with language, puns, and double meanings.
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