tennis

/'tenis/

Thân thiện

A tennis player serves the ball over the net.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A racket sport: "tennis" refers to a sport played on a rectangular court divided by a net, where players use rackets to hit a ball back and forth.
   • The game itself: The term denotes the entire activity, including its rules, equipment, and competitive play.

Usage and Examples

• Noun:
  • She plays tennis every weekend at the local club.
  • Wimbledon is a famous championship for tennis.
  • We watched an exciting tennis match that went to five sets.

Advanced Usage

• "to have a game of tennis": to play a session of tennis.
  • Let's have a game of tennis this afternoon.
• "tennis elbow": a medical condition (tendonitis) often caused by playing tennis or similar activities.
  • He had to stop playing due to tennis elbow.

Variants and Related Words

• Lawn tennis (n): The modern form of the game, originally played on grass courts, to distinguish it from other racket sports like real tennis.
  • Lawn tennis is the most common form played today.
• Table tennis (n): A separate, distinct sport played on a table with small paddles and a lightweight ball. (This is a compound term listed separately as it is not the target word "tennis").
• Tennis player (n): A person who plays tennis.
  • She is a professional tennis player.

Synonyms

• Racket sport: A general term for sports played with a racket and ball, such as tennis, badminton, or squash.

Related Phrases

• Tennis court (n): The marked rectangular area on which tennis is played.
  • The tennis courts were resurfaced last year.
• Tennis ball (n): The fuzzy, pressurized ball used in the sport.
  • He bought a new can of tennis balls.
• Tennis racket/racquet (n): The equipment used to hit the ball.
  • She strung her tennis racket with new gut.

Idioms

• "The ball is in your court": This idiom originates from tennis and means it is now someone else's turn to take action or make a decision.
  • I've made my offer; now the ball is in your court.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• lawn tennis