tennis shoe

noun

: a lightweight usually low-cut sneaker

Examples of tennis shoe in a Sentence

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Rocket Dog Women's Cheery Sneakers $45 $30 at Amazon In the market for a quality pair of tennis shoes? Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025 Adidas’s Stan Smith Tennis Shoe, 1973 Image Image In 1972, Adidas asked the American athlete Stan Smith, then the world’s top tennis player, to endorse its first leather tennis shoe. Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025 That set of products includes tennis shoes, sandals and high heels, among others. Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2025 Parisians have a way of making even the simplest pieces look cool, and vintage-style tennis shoes are part of the city’s unofficial dress code. Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tennis shoe

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tennis shoe was in 1886

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“Tennis shoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tennis%20shoe. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

Kids Definition

tennis shoe

noun
: a lightweight sneaker suitable for wear when playing tennis
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