n. 网球

[ noun ]
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
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Tennis \Ten"nis\, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain
origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to
hold (see {Tenable}).]
A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in
motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
--Shak.

His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing
and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.
--Macaulay.

{Court tennis}, the old game of tennis as played within
walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished
from {lawn tennis}.

{Lawn tennis}. See under {Lawn}, n.

{Tennis court}, a place or court for playing the game of
tennis. --Shak.


Tennis \Ten"nis\, v. t.
To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
[R.] --Spenser.