To provide a simple-structured tensioner that can maintain good sliding properties of and hydraulic pressure for the plunger. The tensioner 10 includes a sleeve 30 inserted into a cylindrical body hole 21, a plunger 40 inserted in the sleeve 30 such as to be able to advance and retract along an axial direction of the sleeve 30, and biasing unit 60 for biasing the plunger 40 toward a front side. The sleeve 30 has, at a front end of a sleeve body 31 thereof, a flange part 33 extending radially outward.