Deck tennis is a sport

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

 that was played on the decks of passenger

Passenger ship

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 and cruise ship

Cruise ship

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s and is still practiced to a small extent. This sport is also known by the names Tenni-Koit, Tenniquoites or Ring tennis. To some extent, the sport is a hybrid between tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and quoits

Quoits

Quoits is a traditional game which involves the throwing of metal, rope or rubber rings over a set distance, usually to land over or near a spike . The sport of quoits encompasses several distinct variations.-The history of quoits:The history of quoits is disputed...

, and is played with either the rubber

Rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...

 disk of quoits or a similarly-sized rope ring.

Rules

Rules vary somewhat from place to place, as the sport has no overall governing body and tends to vary widely with the space available to be allocated to it, but it is usually played on a court roughly 40 to 50 feet (11 to 14 m) long and 15 to 20 feet (5 to 7 m) wide and may be played as either as singles or doubles. The midcourt net

Net (device)

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 is usually the heights, or higher than that of a tennis net. The basic idea is to catch the thrown quoit and immediately return it from the same position in which you caught it while aiming it so that the opponent can't catch it.

Scoring

The scoring system is the same as regular tennis: Love, 15, 30, 40, Deuce, Advantage, Game.

Deck Tennis is the official sport of the City of Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with a population of 82,672 at the 2010 census. Its mayor has been Scott Avedisian since 2000...

. During its heyday in the 1980s and early 1990s, the City of Warwick held a citywide Deck Tennis competition. Hoxsie Elementary holds the most titles.