service line

1. 1.

   the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line

   Synonymsbaseline

   Broaderline

Questions about service line

What does service line mean?

service line means "the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line".

What is another word for service line?

Close synonyms include baseline. 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 service line a common word?

service line 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.