Tennis /(?)/

Ten·nis

Tennis

n.
  1. A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
    His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.

Phrases & Compounds
Court tennis
the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis.
Lawn tennis
See under Lawn, n.
Tennis court
a place or court for playing the game of tennis.

Tennis

v. t.
  1. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.]