As nouns the difference between rugby and badminton

is that rugby is a sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar while badminton is a racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.

As proper nouns the difference between rugby and badminton

is that rugby is a town in Warwickshire, England, where the sport of rugby is thought to have originated while Badminton is a village in Gloucestershire, England.