real tennis

real tennis

English

Noun

real tennis (uncountable)

1. (retronym) an indoor racket sport from which the modern game of tennis (lawn tennis) is descended

Synonyms

• tennis (archaic terminology, used before the development of lawn tennis)
• court tennis
• courte paume, court paume
• royal tennis
• the sport of kings

Translations

racket sport

French: courte-paume (diminutive), jeu de paume (fr) (diminutive), jeu de courte-paume

Italian: racchetta (it) (archaic), pallacorda (it), trincotto, jeu de paume

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