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Definition of tennis
1 : an indoor or outdoor game that is played with rackets and a light elastic ball by two players or pairs of players on a level court (as of clay or grass) divided by a low net
2 : court tennis
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Next year is the obvious moment for celebrating the arrival of open-era tennis.
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Heading into this season, the question was how Portage girls tennis coach Scott Garrison would replace two top singles players, Emily Sajda and Sammie Thompson.
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Serena Williams is known around the world as a powerhouse on the tennis court, and Vanity Fair’s August 2017 cover shows the superstar athlete imbued with a new source of power: motherhood.
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Nearby in the Kids Zone, Izshk House, 7, of Gary, tried his hand at a tennis ball toss into buckets filled with sand.
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Harry van der Lei, co-founder of the Hourglass Performance Institute in Atlanta, says training to control HRV with breathing can improve performance in golf, tennis and shooting—
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Class 3-A cross country, golf, swimming and tennis.
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The complex also has a clubhouse, gym, tennis courts and a dog park.
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Once parked inside the World Trade Center building, where the tennis center is tucked away out of sight, you are greeted by a labyrinth of floors and elevators and blank-faced security guards.
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Origin and Etymology of tennis
Middle English tenetz, tenys, probably from Anglo-French tenez, 2nd person plural imperative of tenir to hold — more at tenable
TENNIS Defined for English Language Learners
tennis
playDefinition of tennis for English Language Learners
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: a game that is played by two people or two pairs of people on a special court (called a tennis court) where they hit a small ball back and forth over a net using rackets
TENNIS Defined for Kids
tennis
playDefinition of tennis for Students
: a game played on a level court by two or four players who use rackets to hit a ball back and forth across a low net dividing the court
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See words that rhyme with tennis Spanish Central: Translation of tennis Nglish: Translation of tennis for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of tennis for Arabic speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about tennis
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