- Winslow Homer, Édouard Manet, Louise Abbéma and Pierre Bonnard all have paintings titled 'The Croquet Game'.
- Norman Rockwell often depicted the game, including in his painting 'Croquet'.
- A favourite subject of Edward Gorey, a croquet reference often appeared in the first illustration of his books. 'The Untenanted Bicycle' opens with two illustrations of the main characters playing with croquet mallets.
- In Issues 29 and 30 of Dave Sim's 'Cerebus', the title character and plays almost 40 games of "Wickets" with an invisible elf. The matches, which include roquet-croquet-related trash-talk, correspond to pages 85-90 in the graphic novel 'High Society'.
- Bill Watterson often depicted the title characters in 'Calvin and Hobbes' playing, or attempting to play croquet. Later in the series, parts of the croquet set were integrated into the sport Calvinball.
- H. G. Wells wrote 'The Croquet Player', which uses croquet as a metaphor for the way in which man confronts the very problem of his own existence.
- A garden version of the game is depicted in the cult film 'Heathers'. Each of the five main characters dresses mostly in their croquet colour, and a major characterisation is made of how one character will roquet-croquet her victim, but our hero takes the two shots and proceeds.
- A surreal version in the popular children's novel 'Alice in Wonderland', as well as the subsequent Disney movie.
- In Martin Scorcese's 'The Aviator', when Howard Hughes visits Katharine Hepburn's home in Connecticut, the family is playing croquet. Later, Hughes kicks a croquet ball and Hepburn says to him "It doesn't count unless you use the mallet."
- In the 'Knots Landing' episode "A Fine Romance" (December 29, 1988), Paige (Nicollette Sheridan) and Greg (William Devane) play a game of strip croquet.
- In the T'hursday Next' series of novels, notably 'Something Rotten', Jasper Fforde depicts an alternative world in which croquet is a mass spectator sport. In the final of the Superhoop '88, Thursday Next leads the Swindon Mallets to victory over their arch-rivals, the Reading Whackers, by engaging the services of a group of Neanderthals, thereby saving the world from imminent destruction.
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