different between athletics vs tennis

English

Etymology

From athlete +? -ics.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??l?t?ks/

Noun

athletics

1. (sports, especially Britain) A group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country and racewalking.
2. (sports, especially US) Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.

Related terms

• athleticism

Translations

Noun

athletics

1. plural of athletic

English

Etymology

Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir (“hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.?s/
• Rhymes: -?n?s

Noun

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

1. (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
2. (dated) A match in this sport.
   • 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)

     We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]

3. (obsolete) 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.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)

1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
2. (transitive) 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

See also

• table tennis or ping pong

Anagrams

• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

Catalan

Alternative forms

• tenis

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?n.nis/

Noun

tennis m (uncountable)

1. tennis

Further reading

• “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tennis” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Danish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisbane
• tennisbold
• tennisketsjer

Further reading

• “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.n?s/
• Hyphenation: ten?nis

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tennis.

Noun

tennis n (uncountable)

1. tennis (sport)

Derived terms

• rolstoeltennis
• tafeltennis
• tennisarm
• tennisbaan
• tennisnet
• tennisracket
• tennissen
• tennisspeelster
• tennisspeler
• tennisveld

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tennis

1. first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
2. imperative of tennissen

Anagrams

• intens

Estonian

Noun

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

1. tennis

Finnish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ten?is/, [?t?e?n?is?]
• Rhymes: -en?is
• Syllabification: ten?nis

Noun

tennis

1. tennis

Declension

Synonyms

• verkkopallo (dated)

Compounds

• tenniskenkä
• tenniskenttä
• tenniskyynärpää
• tennismaila
• tennispallo
• tennistossu
• tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tennis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.nis/

Noun

tennis m (plural tennis)

1. (usually uncountable) tennis
2. (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker

Derived terms

• tennis de table

Further reading

• “tennis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n??s/
• Rhymes: -?n??s

Noun

tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)

1. tennis

Declension

Derived terms

• tennisolnbogi
• tennisspaði

Anagrams

• steinn

Italian

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis m (invariable)

1. tennis

Related terms

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico

Further reading

• tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

• bordtennis
• tennisbane
• tennisspiller

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

• bordtennis
• tennisbane

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisracket

Anagrams

• nitens, sinnet