real tennis

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   an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court

   Synonymsroyal tenniscourt tennis

   Broadertennis

Questions about real tennis

What does real tennis mean?

real tennis means "an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court".

What is another word for real tennis?

Close synonyms include royal tennis, court tennis. 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 real tennis a common word?

real tennis 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.