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.

Noun

(en-plural noun)

(US) trainers, sneakers (sport shoes)

* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=June 30, author=Ted Cox, title=South Bend, IN, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=The Moore Brothers is a white-boys blues band almost stereotypical in its composition: an energetic, toothpick-chewing drummer; a scrawny, ascetic bass player who stood shorter than his upright bass; a clean-cut Charlie in polo shirt and tennies fingering some classic blues solos--sans painful facial expressions--and the leader, an Andy Renko sort singing and occasionally diddling on harp and keeping things fresh with a remarkable collection of esoteric blues standards. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1995, date=September 1, author=Leah Eskin, title=Fashion Statements: the young and the cautious, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Baby Duffy's tennies , jeans, and polo shirt--each borrowed from the grown-up vocabulary for down time--are scaled small, colored bright, and retrofitted with patches at elbow and knee. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2003, date=April 11, author=Laura Molzahn, title=Jan Erkert, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=In 1989 she performed a solo called Fame & Fortune in a pink Afro wig, a tutu, and tennies . }}