Athletics vs Tennis - What's the difference?
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Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
A group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
(label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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(label) A match in this sport.
* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
(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.
* (Shakespeare)
* (1800-1859)
(dated) To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
As nouns the difference between athletics and tennis
is that athletics is physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill while tennis is a sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.As a proper noun Athletics
is the team The Oakland Athletics, previously Kansas City Athletics and Philadelphia Athletics.As a verb tennis is
to play tennis.athletics
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Noun
(head)tennis
Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
* football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquetSee also
* table tennis or ping pongVerb
- (Spenser)
