noun

• The usual form of tennis, played with a soft ball on an open court.

  ‘The competition will involve football, netball, chess, basketball, badminton, volleyball, table tennis and lawn tennis.’

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  • ‘With table tennis, boxing and lawn tennis returning to the sporting calendar there are 19 events set to take place at the sub-regional level.’
  • ‘The local game of road tennis is a cross between ping-pong and lawn tennis.’
  • ‘And outlining the remaining works on the club, Young said squash and lawn tennis courts, a gymnasium, a swimming pool and the last nine holes would be put up in three phases.’
  • ‘They also tried lawn tennis and cricket with minimal success.’
  • ‘He said the college would host day-night tournaments of basketball, and lawn tennis next month’