soft tennis

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), from English soft +‎ tennis.

Noun

soft tennis (uncountable)

1. (sports) A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.

Related terms

• tennis
• royal tennis
• lawn tennis
• tennis ball

Translations

variant of tennis

• Italian: soft tennis m
• Japanese: ソフトテニス (ja) (sofutotenisu), ソフテニ (sofuteni)