The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fives \Fives\ (f[imac]vz), n. pl.
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis;
-- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to
the game.
--Smart.
Fives court, a place for playing fives.
Usage examples of "fives court".
Go along to the Fives Court next Tuesday for the sparring exhibition, and you’.
Boxing, rat-hunting, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aristocracy.
Christopher joined them during the holidays, except when his uncle invited him to stay in London, and indulged him with all manner of high treats, from snipe-shooting in Regent's Park, or skating on the Serpentine, to Astley's Amphitheatre, and pugilistic displays at the Fives Court.
Going to bed they could glimpse his lonely shadow through the perspex roof of the fives court as the Rhino tirelessly attacked the concrete wall.