Tennis vs Fencing - What's the difference?
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(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.
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century European dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing)
* 1973 , Alan Dundes, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (page 253)
Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
As nouns the difference between tennis and fencing
is that tennis is tennis while fencing is the art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th to 18th century european dueling swords and the practice weapons decended from them (sport fencing).As a verb fencing is
.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)
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----fencing
English
(wikipedia fencing)Verb
(head)Noun
- The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
- Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.