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/ˈtɛn.ɪs/ · ten·nis
noun
- A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets. She practices tennis every Saturday at the community courts.
- A match in this sport. The Wimbledon final was the most exciting tennis of the season.
- An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand. Tennis, as a hand‑ball game, was popular among French aristocrats in the 1500s.
verb
- To play tennis. We will tennis at the park after lunch.
- To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball. The small car tennised along the narrow alley, bouncing between the walls.
Did you know? The word *tennis* originally referred to a hand‑ball game; racquets were only introduced later, and the scoring term “love” comes from the French *l'oeuf*, meaning “egg” for zero.
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