tennis ball

See also: Tennisball

English

Etymology

From Middle English teneys-ball (attested in the plural teneys-ballis), equivalent to tennis +‎ ball.

Noun

tennis ball (plural tennis balls)

1. A hollow, bouncy rubber ball, pressurized and covered with usually yellow felt, used in the game of tennis.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 72:

     King. What Treaſure Vncle? / Exe. Tennis balles, my Liege.

Related terms

• ball, tennis, tennis racquet

Translations

ball for tennis

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 網球 / 网球 (zh) (wǎngqiú), 網球員 / 网球员 (wǎngqiúyuán), 網球手 / 网球手 (wǎngqiúshǒu), 網球運動員 / 网球运动员 (wǎngqiú yùndòngyuán)

• Czech: tenisák m (colloquial)
• Danish: tennisbold (da) c
• Dutch: tennisbal (nl) m
• Finnish: tennispallo (fi)
• German: Tennisball (de) m
• Hebrew: כדור טניס (kador tenis)
• Japanese: テニスボール (tenisu bōru)
• Korean: 테니스공 (teniseugong)
• Romanian: minge de tenis
• Russian: те́ннисный мяч m (tɛ́nnisnyj mjač)
• Spanish: bola de tenis
• Swedish: tennisboll (sv) c