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How to pronounce tennis
Say it like this: /ˈtɛn.ɪs/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does tennis mean?
nounA sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
A match in this sport.
An 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.
verbTo play tennis.
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”
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