forehand stroke

1. 1.

   (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)

   Synonymsforehandforehand shot

   Broaderreturn

   tennis · badminton · squash

Questions about forehand stroke

What does forehand stroke mean?

forehand stroke means "(sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)".

What is another word for forehand stroke?

Close synonyms include forehand, forehand 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 forehand stroke a common word?

forehand 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.