tennis
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tennis/ˈtenɪs/
▶noun a game in which two or four players strike a hollow rubber ball with rackets over a net stretched across a grass or clay court. See also real tennis.
– origin ME tenetz, tenes ‘real tennis’, appar. from OFr. tenez ‘take, receive’ (called by the server to an opponent), imper. of tenir.
'tennis' also found in these Oxford entries:
ace
- ad
- advantage
- alley
- backcourt
- backhand
- ballboy
- bandy
- baseline
- bisque
- boast
- break
- break point
- classic
- court
- court tennis
- deuce
- dink
- double fault
- drive
- drop shot
- epicondylitis
- fault
- foot fault
- forecourt
- forehand
- forehanded
- game
- game point
- groundstroke
- half-volley
- hazard
- kill
- knock-up
- lawn tennis
- let
- lob
- love
- love game
- LTA
- match point
- middle
- mixed doubles
- net
- out
- overarm
- paddle
- pass
- passing shot
- ping-pong
