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Definition of Tennis stroke
1. Noun. The act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket.
Generic synonyms: Shot, Stroke
Specialized synonyms: Return, Serve, Service
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tennis Stroke
Literary usage of Tennis stroke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Hamilton Miles (1903)
"The Racquet stroke is, owing to the height of the play-line, naturally lower than
the tennis stroke, and allows less time to ..."
2. Racquets, Tennis, and Squash by Eustace Hamilton Miles (1903)
"For the typical tennis stroke, the whole arm and racket almost form one stiff
piece of mechanism. For the typical Racquet stroke, the joints must be lithe ..."
3. Tennis as I Play it by Maurice Evans McLoughlin (1915)
"Top-spin in a tennis stroke may be compared to the follow-shots in billiards.
... In a tennis stroke, likewise, we know that to put top-spin ..."
4. Tennis as I Play it by Maurice Evans McLoughlin (1915)
"Top-spin in a tennis stroke may be compared to the follow-shots in billiards.
... In a tennis stroke, likewise, we know that to put top-spin ..."
5. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"This is, therefore, the lawn-tennis stroke par excellence; it is possessed by
almost every good player of the present day, and will be acquired more easily ..."
6. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1915)
"Compare the tennis stroke with the lash of a whip and you will get a fair idea
of it. Extra strength does not make the whip strike a harder blow; ..."
7. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"Compare the tennis stroke with the lash of a whip and you will get a fair idea
of it. Extra strength does not make the whip strike a harder blow; ..."
8. Tennis by John Moyer Heathcote, Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie, Arthur Campbell Ainger (1890)
"It is in such cases that there is brought into play the second distinctive
lawn-tennis stroke, known as The Horizontal Stroke. ..."
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