table tennis

American  

noun

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

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table tennis British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of table tennis

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The semi-professional table tennis player replied to a casting call advertised by the sport's governing body for England asking for British players, thinking he would just be an extra in the background.

From BBC

Thanks to his table tennis prowess, Béla disarms bombs for the Nazis in the woods.

From Los Angeles Times

Thriller One Battle After Another leads the pack, followed by vampire horror Sinners, and then Hamnet, which dramatises Shakespeare's family life, along with table tennis drama Marty Supreme.

From BBC

Named the Magnavox Odyssey, the console setup included translucent overlays that players stuck on the TV screen to create colorful game boards, such as table tennis, roulette and haunted house.

From The Wall Street Journal

Youth women’s soccer, alongside weightlifting and table tennis, is something of an athletic arbitrage for cash-strapped North Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal