LAWN TENNIS

Pronunciation (US):

• LAWN TENNIS (noun)
  The noun LAWN TENNIS has 1 sense:

1. a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court

  Familiarity information: LAWN TENNIS used as a noun is very rare.

• LAWN TENNIS (noun)

Meaning:

A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lawn tennis; tennis

Hypernyms ("lawn tennis" is a kind of...):

court game (an athletic game played on a court)

Meronyms (parts of "lawn tennis"):

return (a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player)

footfault (a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline)

set point ((tennis) the final point needed to win a set in tennis)

service break (a tennis game won on the opponent's service)

advantage ((tennis) first point scored after deuce)

Domain member category:

exchange; rally ((sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes)

double fault ((tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point)

match point ((tennis) the final point needed to win a match (especially in tennis))

fault ((sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area))

serve; service ((sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play)

forehand drive ((sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash))

forehand; forehand shot; forehand stroke ((sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash))

drive ((sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash))

cut; undercut ((sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball)

break; break of serve ((tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving)

ace (serve an ace against (someone))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lawn tennis"):

professional tennis (playing tennis for money)

singles (tennis played with one person on each side)

doubles (tennis played with two players on each side)

court tennis; real tennis; royal tennis (an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court)