table tennis

noun

1. a game resembling tennis, played on a table with small paddles and a hollow celluloid or plastic ball.

table tennis

noun

1. a miniature form of tennis played on a table with small bats and a light hollow ball

Word History and Origins

Origin of table tennis¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Put a robot in a tightly-controlled environment and it can quickly surpass human performance at complex tasks, from building cars to playing table tennis.

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The Chairman of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was called the Honorable Ivor Montagu.

From The Daily Beast

The fastest man in table tennis, so sharp that the Chinese had nicknamed him The Brain, looked like he was wearing stone sneakers.

From The Daily Beast

The game happened yesterday when the couple were at Drumchapel Table Tennis Club in Scotland.

From The Daily Beast

They're made by a table-tennis ball crisscrossing the net at phenomenal speed.

From The Daily Beast

The turning point in table-tennis history was in Bombay in 1952.

From The Daily Beast

When all the world was playing table-tennis eight or ten years ago, King viewed the game with disgust.

From Project Gutenberg

I hear that you have become a great devotee of the fashionable fad of table tennis.

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