tennis

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

   ““Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.””

   “One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement.”

2. (dated, uncountable, usually)A match in this sport.

   “We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]”

3. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)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-balls”

   “His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.”

verb

1. (dated, intransitive)To play tennis.
2. (transitive)To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

   “they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them”

name

1. An unincorporated community in Finney County, Kansas, United States.