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Definitions in simple English

tennis Noun

— Tennis is a sport where players use a racquet to hit a ball over a net. It can be played by two or four people. The four girls spent the afternoon playing tennis.

tennis

— noun a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court

Synonyms tennis synonyms

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Topics tennis topics

What do people use tennis to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports

What words refer to specific sports?

football soccer basketball tennis track track and field ping pong badminton baseball hockey ice hockey boxing wrestling running cricket golf gymnastics race

Examples tennis examples

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Simple sentences

Do you play tennis?

Tennis is difficult. I never know which way the ball is going to fly.

Jane may be playing tennis with my brother.

I play tennis all the year around.

I often played tennis with her.

I play tennis.

I saw Tom play tennis.

Why can't he play tennis today?

She used to play tennis every Sunday.

I used to play tennis.

I'm a tennis player.

She used to play tennis with him.

I've never played tennis with Tom.

He's Argentinean and he gives tennis lessons.

I used to play tennis when I was a student.

We enjoyed playing tennis.

The rain prevented us from finishing our game of tennis.

The rain prevented us from playing tennis outside.

When the rain stopped, the game of tennis was continued immediately.

It was during my college years that I took up tennis.

Lucy likes playing tennis.

Send me a racket and my tennis shoes.

Margaret, whose father you met last Sunday, is a very good tennis player.

Bob is down for the coming tennis competition.

Do you not play tennis?

You are a tennis player.

You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water.

Yumiko belongs to the tennis club.

I like tennis very much.

Frank can't have been ill. He was playing tennis all day.

I usually play tennis.

Movie subtitles

You mean they're playing golf at the courses and tennis at the court?

The tennis player?

The tennis player.

You wind up like an old tennis ball.

So start telling me how many sets you played, what people said at tennis, how your horse is doing, how your car's acting up again, and so on.

The last time I saw him was at a tennis party at the McFarrens'.

You keen on tennis?

That pro must have been teaching you other things than tennis.

Tennis lessons, my foot!

Wouldn't like to play tennis in it, would you?

There's the tennis court up there, grape arbor there, and a grove there.

That's for your swimming pools and your tennis courts. and your limousines and your barbecues.

He was playing a set of tennis with himself.

Golf, tennis.

You two pack your tennis rackets and go back where you belong.

It's no tennis club either.

Like a backhand at tennis.

The day I went to Dover, I told Alan I was at the tennis matches at Wimbledon.

There's the ballet, and next week there'll be the Wimbledon tennis.

A tennis court for tennis.

Is she the horsey type? No. The tennis type?

May I call monsieur's attention to the fact we are featuring a special sale at reduced prices of raincoats, umbrellas, tennis racquets and portable phonographs.

Oh, and I want some tennis shoes.

Tennis, you mean? Yes. You look like you'd be pretty good.

And on Sunday we play tennis.

When do you play tennis?

And we're playing tennis now.

So is tennis.

Helen Wills is an amateur in tennis.

She can't play pro tennis, can she?

You told me amateurs couldn't play tennis.

Who's asking her to play tennis?

Well, look at me. You wind up like an old tennis ball.

I thought I'd take a tennis lesson. I see.

You keen on tennis? - Well, not particularly.

News and current affairs

The chessboard, the tennis court, the soccer field: within their boundaries we feel free because here it is we who make the rules and are not subjected to the iron laws of the outside world.

Tennis fans may admire a well-executed backhand; but watching players warm up on court would soon become dull if no match followed.

A benign example is Adidas's sponsorship of tennis tournaments.

US tennis fans watch tennis wherever it is played all over the world, and the US audience for golf does not plummet when a tournament is played in the sport's birthplace, Scotland.

Tennis does not create frenzy on a national scale.

Writing at home sometime ago, with Wimbledon on TV in the background, it occurred to me that just as Britain hosts the world's top tennis tournament but never wins it, so we Europeans are in a similar situation with education.

Yes, Dubai, with its man-made islands, hotels simulating Venice, and roof-top tennis courts, is a real-world castle in the sand.

The familiar figure with the glinting, rimless glasses and the rigid hair forced back, as if it were spun glass, greeted me at the door of his seemingly tennis court-size office.

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