soft tennis

English

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from soft +‎ tenis.

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), 軟式テニス (なんしきテニス, nanshiki tenisu), 軟式庭球 (なんしきていきゅう, nanshiki teikyū)
• Korean: 소프트 테니스 (sopeuteu teniseu), 연식정구(軟式庭球) (yeonsikjeonggu)