tennis

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To play tennis.
• To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

Origin

• Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir.