Noun

(en-noun)

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

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“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

(label) A match in this sport.

* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)

We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises

(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)

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