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Answer for the clue "Basic tennis stroke ", 8 letters:
forehand

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) [syn: forehand stroke , forehand shot ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term forehand refers to the front half of a horse's body.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context racket sports English) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke 2 (context disc sports English) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bounding energetically about the court, unleashing an athletic, whip-like forehand , she was easily the better and more fit player. ▪ But Pierce's forehand saved her on both occasions. ▪ He cut down through the circle and scored ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forehand \Fore"hand`\, a. Done beforehand; anticipative. And so extenuate the forehand sin. --Shak.

Usage examples of forehand.

Ecator came up and whirled through spears, horses, and imps in a lightning-fast forehand and backhand riposte.

His long red hair swirled with the violence of the strokes as his long sword hacked forehand and backhand.

The naked guerrillas took them from behind, and this time Craig heard the explosive grunts as they swung the long-bladed pangm, like a tennis-player hitting a hard forehand volley.

Stice drove this backhand hard down the line to Hal's forehand, a blazing thing that made the audience inhale, but as the samizdat's director's other son glided a few strides left Steeply could see that he now had a whole open court to hit cross-court into, Stice having hit so hard he'd backpedalled a bit off the shot and was now scrambling to get back out of the deuce corner, arid Hal hit the flat textbook drive cross-court into green lined space, hard but not flamboyantly so, and the diagonal of the ball kept it travelling out wide after it hit Stice's ad sideline, carrying it away from the boy in black's outstretched racquet, and for a second it looked as if Stice at a dead run might get his strings on the ball, but the ball stayed tantalizingly just out of reach, still travelling at a severe cross-court diagonal, and it passed Slice's racquet half a meter past its rim, and Slice's momentum carried him almost halfway into the next court.

The naked guerrillas took them from behind, and this time Craig heard the explosive grunts as they swung the long, bladed pan gas likea tennis-player hitting a hard forehand volley.

He gave his aromatique an emphatic crunch and jabbed a forehand at Smith.

If one of the combatants shifted his feet as he struck, or was staggered as he and his opponent traded full power, forehand and backhand bitch slaps, the contest was over.

Estelle snagged a skillet out of the dish rack, crossed the room, and raised it for a rocketing forehand shot to Catfish's head.

Then it popped clear and Bunty leaned out of the saddle and hit his first good shot of the match, a high forehand drive that lofted well up-field and his pony went after it instinctively, bearing Bunty along on the line whether he liked it or not.

The Bushman was trying desperately to notch another arrow as Lothar leaned out of the saddle like a polo player reaching for a forehand drive, and swung the Mauser.

The Argentinian rose in the saddle to trap the fall, his white teeth sparkling under the trim black pencil-line of his mustache, the smooth darkly tanned muscles of his arm bulging as he prepared to go on to the forehand drive, his sleekly beautiful pony wheeling into line for the shot, nimble and quick as a ferret.

He had no illusions about his game: a powerful serve and a bulletlike forehand drive, but no control to speak of.

And with that he stamped forward, his forehand slash aimed at Bill's helmless head.

And with that he stamped forward, his forehand slash aimed at Bili's helmless head.

Luckily, I killed mine be forehand and it is now in the pork barrel.