ground stroke

1. 1.

   a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once

   Antonymsvolley

   Broaderreturn

Questions about ground stroke

What does ground stroke mean?

ground stroke means "a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once".

What is the opposite of ground stroke?

The recorded antonyms are volley.

Is ground stroke a common word?

ground 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.