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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
table tennis
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 there will be a table tennis tournament.
▪ If it's raining, aerobics will be followed by table tennis and craft work.
▪ Teenagers play furious games of table tennis in the village center.
▪ The hotel has a new indoor pool leading directly on to the well-kept gardens with table tennis and sun-bathing lawns.
▪ There is a hobby room with table tennis, a bridge room, a beauty centre and two television lounges.
▪ You don't play table tennis, do you?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
table tennis

ping-pong \ping"-pong`\, n. [Imitative.]

  1. 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 a trade name]

  2. A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.

Wiktionary
table tennis

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)

WordNet
table tennis

n. a game (trade name Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball [syn: Ping-Pong]

Wikipedia
Table tennis

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 generally as follows: players must allow a ball played toward them to bounce one time on their side of the table, and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side at least once. A point is scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. Spinning the ball alters its trajectory and limits an opponent's options, giving the hitter a great advantage.

Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded in 1926. ITTF currently includes 220 member associations. The table tennis official rules are specified in the ITTF handbook. Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988, with several event categories. From 1988 until 2004, these were: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. Since 2008, a team event has been played instead of the doubles.

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.