soft tennis

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soft tennis

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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

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

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noun variant of tennis

한국어	소프트 테니스 sopeuteu teniseu, 연식정구 yeonsikjeonggu
日本語	ソフトテニス sofutotenisu, ソフテニ sofuteni, 軟式テニス nanshiki tenisu, 軟式庭球 nanshiki teikyū
Italiano	soft tennis

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@misc{soft_tennis_2026,
  title = {soft tennis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soft%20tennis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}