ten ‧ nis S3 W3 /ˈtenəs, ˈtenɪs/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable]
[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: Probably from Anglo-French tenetz! 'take!, receive!' (as called out by the player first hitting the ball in tennis), from tenir ; ⇨ ↑ tenant ]
a game for two people or two pairs of people who use ↑ racket s to hit a small soft ball backwards and forwards over a net