Definitions
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
Word origin
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Used in a sentence
““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[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.””
“One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement.”
“We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Court game with rackets”6 letters
02“Racket sport”6 letters
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