backhand stroke

1. 1.

   a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke

   Synonymsbackhandbackhand shot

   Broaderreturn

   Narrowertwo-handed backhand

Questions about backhand stroke

What does backhand stroke mean?

backhand stroke means "a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke".

What is another word for backhand stroke?

Close synonyms include backhand, backhand shot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is backhand stroke a common word?

backhand stroke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.