table tennis
: a game resembling tennis that is played on a tabletop with wooden paddles and a small hollow plastic ball
Recent Examples on the Web
//The club will be in alignment with USA Table Tennis, the national governing body of table tennis in the United States.
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courant.com, "Community News For The Putnam-Killingly Edition," 4 Nov. 2019
//Students could visit after school and enjoy a game room for billiards, table tennis, checkers and shuffleboard.
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Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, "Teen club offered wholesome fun to wartime youth," 19 Oct. 2019
//In this instance, there are plenty of other individual sports that are extremely popular worldwide where men and women play simultaneously in all tournaments (badminton and table tennis come to mind).
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Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "Mailbag: In Defense of the WTA's Age Eligibility Rule," 31 July 2019
//There were nine mixed events over all in Rio; there will be 18 in Tokyo, including mixed-team triathlon and mixed-doubles table tennis.
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Chris Museler, New York Times, "Mixed Events Shake Up Olympic Sailing," 4 Aug. 2019
//There will also be a table tennis competition (using a table built out of lego bricks) and DJ performances throughout the event.
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Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, "Lego brick pop-up bar coming to Cleveland," 31 July 2019
//His connection to table tennis remains strong at Eagle’s Trace.
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Houston Chronicle, "Center of the action at Eagle’s Trace," 29 July 2019
//Pedro Martinez is about the only table tennis foe who can keep up with him.
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Jacob Feldman, SI.com, "This Could Be the U.S. Open FOX Has Been Waiting For," 13 June 2019
//Bay Area athletes could represent the United States in table tennis with past Olympians Kanak Jha of Milpitas and Lily Zhang Palo Alto as strong as ever.
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Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, "With surfing and skateboarding added to Games, Tokyo Olympics will carry a California flavor," 24 July 2019
First Known Use of table tennis
1891, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries near table tennis
More Definitions fortable tennis
: a game in which players stand at opposite ends of a table and use wooden paddles to hit a small plastic ball to each other across a net
: a game played on a table by two or four players who use paddles to hit a small hollow plastic ball back and forth over a net