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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Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a ping pong player in the 1950s who ruthlessly pursues table tennis greatness.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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
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“Table tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table%20tennis. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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