table tennis

noun

: a game resembling tennis that is played on a tabletop with wooden paddles and a small hollow plastic ball

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In the video, people with orange ping pong ball heads are playing table tennis in a field while one of them is trapped inside a plastic box filled with flying balls. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025 The movie stars Chalamet as aspiring competitive table tennis player Marty Mauser, and Paltrow, 53, makes her first big screen appearance since 2019 in the film as an actress named Kay Stone, who engaged in an affair with the title character. Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 The director sought out an expert on table tennis, Diego Schaaf, to handle all coordination. David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025 Timothée Chalamet just made the most stressful film you're ever bound to see about table tennis. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for table tennis

Word History

First Known Use

1891, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of table tennis was in 1891

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“Table tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table%20tennis. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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table tennis

noun
: a game resembling tennis that is played on a table with wooden paddles and a small hollow plastic ball

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