Definition of Tennis racket

1. Noun. A racket used to play tennis.

Exact synonyms: Tennis Racquet
Generic synonyms: Racket, Racquet

Definition of Tennis racket

1. Noun. (tennis) A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tennis Racket

tennis ball
tennis camp
tennis club
tennis coach
tennis court
tennis courts
tennis dress
tennis elbow
tennis leg
tennis lesson
tennis match
tennis player
tennis players
tennis pro
tennis racket
tennis rackets
tennis racquet
tennis racquets
tennis shoe
tennis shoes
tennis shot
tennis stroke
tennis thumb
tennises
tennislike
tennist
tennists
tenno
tenno-hai

Literary usage of Tennis racket

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Game of Squash by Eustace Miles (1900)
"This variety should be utilised not only for the sake of a pleasant change, but also as a preparation for various Games: the Tennis (Court-Tennis) racket, ..."

2. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Hamilton Miles (1903)
"The tennis racket is at present lop-sided. I have never yet heard that this ... Why should not the tennis racket be ? It may be urged that the curve helps ..."

3. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Hamilton Miles (1903)
"The tennis racket is at present lop-sided. I have never yet heard that this is ... Why should not the tennis racket be? It may be urged that the curve helps ..."

4. Read & Understand Celebrating Diversity Grades 1-2 by Jill Norris (2000)
"She bought Pancho a tennis racket instead. No one in Pancho's family had ever played tennis. Pancho took the racket to a tennis court. ..."

5. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Revenues by Great Britain (1864)
"Is it the same as a tennis racket ?—No. 2717. It is not so heavy? ... A tennis racket is wired. 2718. Is it very long ?—It is about two feet, or rather more ..."

6. Woman's Voice: An Anthology by Josephine Conger Kaneko (1918)
"repeated the father, in mock threat lifting the tennis racket as if to strike the child over ... So he quickly put his tennis racket in front of the boy, ..."

7. The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts (1916)
"We must perceive objects through our motor response to them as well as in terms of sensations. The boy who has his knowledge of a tennis racket from looking ..."

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