tennis ball

a hollow ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a fuzzy covering of woven Dacron, nylon, or wool.

Origin of tennis ball

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

She picked up a tennis-ball that was lying on the edge of the grass.

The Rubicon |E. F. Benson
The company kicked about the poor diabolic writer's head as if it had been a tennis-ball.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 |Various
In the gutter by this path lay a tennis-ball, neglected and desolate.

The Judgment Books |Edward Frederic Benson
Its state is such as once was Rome's, when, like a tennis-ball, she leaped into the racket of young Octavius.

Fiesco or, The Genoese Conspiracy |Friedrich Schiller

Marry, he makes as little of these gates as if he were a tennis-ball and they the net.

Helmet of Navarre |Bertha Runkle

tennis ball

a hollow rubber ball covered with felt, used in tennis