| NOUN | act | tennis, lawn tennis | a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court |
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| Sounds | teh'nahs; teh'nihs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| abyss ... worthiness: 194 rhymes with ihs... | ||
| 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. | |
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| Synonym | lawn tennis | |
| Category of | ace | Serve an ace against (someone) |
| break, break of serve | (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game / game when your opponent was serving | |
| cut, undercut | (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | |
| double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point | |
| drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | |
| drop one's serve | Lose a game in which one is serving | |
| fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | |
| forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) | |
| forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash) | |
| game | (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves | |
| match point | (tennis) the final / final point needed to win / win a match (especially in tennis) | |
| rally, exchange | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | |
| serve, service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | |
| Parts | advantage | (tennis) first point scored after deuce |
| footfault | A fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | |
| return | A tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player | |
| service break | A tennis game won on the opponent's service | |
| set point | (tennis) the final / final point needed to win / win a set in tennis | |
| Narrower | doubles | tennis played with two players on each side |
| professional tennis | Playing tennis for money | |
| royal tennis, real tennis, court tennis | An ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court | |
| singles | tennis played with one person on each side | |
| Broader | court game | An athletic game played on a court |
| Spanish | tenis | |
| Catalan | tenis, tennis | |
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