tennis
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈtɛnɪs//
- Australien//ˈtenɪs//
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
Substantiv
- 1
A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
“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.
- 2
veraltendA match in this sport.
We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]
- 3
veraltetAn 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.
tennis-balls
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Herkunft
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Verb
- 1
veraltendTo play tennis.
- 2
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
Formen
- Plural
- tennises
- Präteritum
- tennised
- Partizip II
- tennised
- Partizip I
- tennising
- 3. Person Singular
- tennises
tennis · A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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