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table tennis
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Wiktionary
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n. A game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball across a table (fashioned like a mini tennis court) by racquet (a.k.a. paddle, a.k.a bat in Britain)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
ping-pong \ping"-pong`\, n. [Imitative.] An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net. Also called table tennis . originally ...
Wikipedia
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Table tennis , also known as ping pong , is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using a small paddle. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules are ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For the energetic there is snorkelling and fishing, tennis, table tennis and a pool table. ▪ Gradually Seoul improved its proposal, offering all table tennis and fencing events to Pyongyang. ▪ If it's raining in the afternoon ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a game (trade name Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball [syn: Ping-Pong ]
Usage examples of table tennis.
I never did get the hang of table tennis, but I became quite a useful bantamweight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green.
She grabbed up her table tennis bat, rolled up her sleeve, stomped off to her pile of dead goat-like things, and started to set about the flies with vim and vigour.
So I congratulated him on having given Skip a table tennis lesson so long ago.
I knew that the Chinese traditionally hold their table tennis bats the way we hold cigarettes.
What I did not know was that they also hold their cigarettes the way we hold table tennis bats.
It was a hopeless task because each of the flies was about the size of a winged bottle top and all she had was a table tennis bat.