tennis
IPA: tˈɛnʌs
noun
- (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- (dated) A match in this sport.
- (obsolete) 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.
verb
- (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
- (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
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Examples of "tennis" in Sentences
- He ran gaily to the tennis team.
- The pebbles are the size of tennis balls.
- Macomber also patronized the game of tennis.
- There is a sketched picture of the tennis player.
- The responses by Tennis expert are indeed risible.
- The tennis club planted many of the trees in the park.
- It is a bouncy rubber ball, about the size of a tennis ball.
- The sisters became two of the best tennis players in the world.
- A profusion of tennis courts have existed from the beginning of the Club.
- Contrastingly, many tennis matches are conducted with no officials present.
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