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Definition of Real tennis
1. Noun. An ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court.
Definition of Real tennis
1. Noun. (context: retronym) an indoor racket sport from which the modern game of tennis (lawn tennis) is descended ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Real Tennis
Literary usage of Real tennis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"In short, tennis players were disabused of the notion they had taken up, that
lawn tennis was in the least like real tennis, save only in name. ..."
2. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"In short, tennis players were disabused of the notion they had taken up, that
lawn tennis was in the least like real tennis, save only in name. ..."
3. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Hamilton Miles (1903)
"I am going to play real Tennis, not Lawn Tennis. real tennis is played in a
covered court Ske. Oh, indeed ! quite a new game then ? ..."
4. The Art of Lawn Tennis by William Tatem Tilden (1921)
"New York City uses the big armouries for indoor play; but the surface and light
in these are not fit for real tennis. The Brooklyn Heights Casino has the ..."
5. The Complete Lawn Tennis Player by Arthur Wallis Myers (1908)
"real tennis than it is now. There was much careful play off the ground and placing
of the ball. The hitting was not so hard as in later times. ..."
6. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1899)
"But this might apply to real tennis, as it is probable that this game was ...
and that it has some right to bear itself as nobly as real tennis and golf. ..."
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