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Answer for the clue "Table tennis ", 9 letters:
ping-pong

Word definitions for ping-pong in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1901, from ping-pong (n.). In the figurative sense from 1952. Related: Ping-ponged ; ping-ponging .

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 Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ping-pong is a trademarked name for the game of table tennis . Ping-pong , Ping pong , or Pingpong may also refer to: In film : Ping Pong (1987 film) , a British film Ping Pong (2002 film) , a 2002 Japanese manga-adaptation film Ping Pong Playa , a 2007 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of ping pong English) vb. (alternative form of ping pong English)

Usage examples of ping-pong.

Automatic firing was quicker, possibly more certainbut that mushy cutoff could bounce them like a ping-pong ball.

Elint towers, odd-shaped antennas secured in cement, warning signs, and radomes that looked like giant Ping-Pong balls were erected.

Waterford crystal and laboriously assembled our brand-new pool, Ping-Pong, and foosball tables.

Ping-pong championship popping in your brain, go slow and easy, watch your eyelids come down in a twenty-minute blink, go Quaalude crazy, swallow those pills with Cuervo, Lone Star, or that essence of East Texas corruption, Wild Turkey liquor.

Along with this, I had another jar full of the semilethal Ping-Pong dust.

Footjoys and blue sweat socks, drawing the long tapered steel wand of his Lynx Predator driver from the bag, he feels tall again, tall the way he used to on a hardwood basketball floor when after those first minutes his growing momentum and lengthening bounds and leaps reduced the court to childlike dimensions, to the size of a tennis court and then a Ping-Pong table, his legs unthinkingly eating the distances up, back and forth, and the hoop with its dainty skirtlike net dipping down to be there on the layups.

They already had one Chinese member, a mechanic for Harley-Davidson, but he was a quiet, dependable type and nothing like Ping-Pong, who made the outlaws nervous.

The cheerleaders bounced about like irregular ping-pong balls, shaking their pompoms among other things and arousing the pep squad to frenzied squeals.

Mahlke who during the winter after the second summer on the barge created the pompoms: two little woolen spheres the size of ping-pong balls, in solid or mixed colors, attached to a plaited woolen cord that was worn under the collar like a necktie and tied into a bow so that the two pompoms hung at an angle, more or less like a bow tie.

An undercut, backspinning ball in Ping-Pong was a strange shot with special properties.

I tole him about the Ping-Pong stuff in China an gettin involved with the NASA people an startin up the srimp bidness an playin football for the New Orleans Saints.

Traditional optics are long since obsolete – tunable matter can slow photons to a stop, teleport them here to there, play ping-pong with spin and polarization – and besides, the dumb matter in the walls and floor has been replaced by low-power computronium, heat sinks dangling far below the floor of the lily-pad habitat to dispose of the scanty waste photons from reversible computation.

Several Disty were playing Go -- they felt it was the best thing they had discovered on the planet Earth, with Ping-Pong a close second -- sitting on the tables so that their heads were as near the ceiling as they could get.

That one-man ant army that, in its marches, did not gnaw down with its mandibles but set up, with its many metal arms, one gigantic dormlike structure, including kids' play-grounds, swimming pools, ping-pong tables and dart boards.

He enjoyed a reputation for progressiveness and played ping-pong in the sacristy with the altar boys and those preparing for their first communion.