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# tennis

«tennis» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sport for two or four players who hit a small ball over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tennis)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tennis is a sport for two or four players who hit a small ball over a net with rackets on a court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#m1)

2) Table tennis is a different game played on a table with small bats and a light ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and sport, tennis teaches hand-eye coordination; scores go love (0), 15, 30, 40, then game. Famous tournaments include Wimbledon in England, the US Open and the Australian Open. In maths, tennis scores are a fun puzzle because they do not go up by the same amount each time. Phrases: «play tennis», «tennis ball», «tennis racket», «tennis court».

### examples

- We play tennis in the park after school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x1)
- Pass me the tennis racket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x2)
- The tennis ball bounced over the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x3)
- Wimbledon is a famous tennis tournament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x4)
- In tennis, «love» means zero. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x5)
- She hit the ball hard with her tennis racket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x6)
- They played doubles tennis, two against two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x7)
- My brother plays table tennis at the club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x8)
- ‘Sire, this morning we were all playing tennis in the court, the prince and this gentleman with the rest, when there broke out some dispute about the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «play tennis», not «play a tennis» and not «play the tennis». In tennis scoring, the steps are 15, 15, then 10 (0 → 15 → 30 → 40), which can trap you in a maths question. Spelling: two n's in the middle, then -is.

### In the corpora

- ["An unforced error" (jargon, from tennis) means a mistake one made all by oneself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/34-failure-and-mistakes/13/)
- [Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/5/)
- [A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/16/)
- [For sports and games French says jouer à: je joue au football, je joue au tennis, je joue aux cartes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/5/)
- [Popular sports in France include football, rugby, tennis, cycling, handball and judo; baseball is rare there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tennis» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tennis/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.