Easy tennis shot

The answer

LOB

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOB answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LOB

Every other clue in this collection answered by LOB, most used first.

• Tennis shot - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• High tennis shot - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• High hit - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Tennis stroke - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
• High ball - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Soft toss - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• High return - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Arcing shot - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
• Toss - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Arcing tennis shot - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• High-arcing tennis shot - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Easy toss - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Tennis tactic - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
• Arced tennis shot - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Easy throw - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• High toss - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Soft throw - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Slow throw - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• High, arcing shot - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Gentle toss - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• High tennis hit - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Soft pitch - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Tennis ploy - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Easy question - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• High-arc shot - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Tennis hit - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Tennis stratagem - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Arcing throw - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Defensive tennis shot - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• High shot in tennis - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• High throw - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Soft shot - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Toss-up? - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Tennis court divider - NET, used 159 times
• Easy mark - SAP, used 104 times
• Tennis do-over - LET, used 103 times
• Tennis call - LET, used 80 times
• Give it a shot - TRY, used 62 times
• Tennis unit - SET, used 62 times

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