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Definition of Deck tennis
1. Noun. Game played mainly on board ocean liners; players toss a ring back and forth over a net that is stretched across a small court.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deck Tennis
Literary usage of Deck tennis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"He read Marcus Aurelius while the Countess Alia and I played deck-tennis ; but,
after she had gone to bed, he talked European politics with me in the ..."
2. Aloha Around the World by Karl Max Vogel (1922)
"The most important events today were the inauguration of the deck tennis outfit,
and this game promises to become very popular. It is getting warmer as we ..."
3. Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold by Peter Mommsen (2004)
"To while away the time, there were lessons in Spanish and deck tennis, chess
matches were held, and a small choral group was organized. ..."
4. The Glory of the Trenches: An Interpretation by Coningsby Dawson (1918)
"He and his young wife used to play deck-tennis every morning as light- heartedly
as if they were travelling to Europe for a lark. In my many accusations of ..."
5. Japan: A Child of the World's Old Age by Charles Clarke (1913)
"So games of various kinds are engaged in, such as shuffleboard, quoit pitching,
rings, deck tennis, etc., during the day; dances', vaudeville, ..."
6. Education by Violence: Essays on the War and the Future by Henry Seidel Canby (1919)
"... her " port on the Irish Sea," and there had been no international incident
except an Anglo-American squabble over the best way to umpire deck tennis. ..."
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