Spanish to English pelotear

[Edd1000000000]

In tennis slang, pelotear means "warm up or playing some balls without playing any point or following any score"

 

[n.ares]

Thanks for your interest in our dictionaries. I think that the first sense of this entry (jugar a la pelota) is actually supposed to refer to this usage. I've made some adjustments to hopefully make this clearer. Changes will be visible once our bilingual dictionaries are updated in the next months.

 

[DearPrudence]

Maybe this report should be passed on to the esen team?
In this context, I don't think "play ball" is correct + it's not clear whether "pepper" would apply to tennis.
Some suggestions here:
pelotear

 

[n.ares]

Maybe this report should be passed on to the esen team?

I starred this sense so the EsEn team will review it soon, but I will pass this on in case @fenixpollo wants to make any changes now (the new sense will read "deportistas: hacer pases de pelota").

 

[fenixpollo]

I added "pepper". It does not apply to tennis as far as I know, and no online sources implied that it would.

However, I haven't found anything on line that would indicate the correct verb for "warm up" in tennis parlance. Perhaps simply "practice". I'll change "play ball" to "practice" and that should be good for now.

 

[DearPrudence]

Thanks! I take it that you're not a fan of something like 'Hit some balls around'?

 

[fenixpollo]

I've never played tennis so that option didn't occur to me. I'd be happy to add it.