Tennis shots

The answer

LOBS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOBS answer page.

Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ACES (2 uses in xd)
• SMASHES (1 uses in xd)
• VOLLEYS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for LOBS

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

• High tennis shots - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Arcing shots - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Soft throws - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Tennis strokes. - used 13 times, most recently in 2008
• Arcing tennis shots - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• High returns - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Soft tosses - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Tosses - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• High hits - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Some tennis shots - 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 great Arthur - ASHE, used 225 times
• Nastase of tennis - ILIE, used 217 times
• Arthur of tennis - ASHE, used 152 times
• Tennis legend Arthur - ASHE, used 125 times
• Lendl of tennis - IVAN, used 112 times
• Mandlikova of tennis - HANA, used 90 times

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