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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While culture cannot replace hard diplomacy, this Macron visit demonstrates that in 2025, the road to political consensus in Beijing may very well run through the panda enclosure and table tennis arena.
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Xianda Huang, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
The filmmaker’s passion for foolhardy underdogs and train-wreck charmers electrifies this tale of a postwar striver (an unbelievable Timothée Chalamet) trying to make his name in table tennis.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
The moderator asked Chalamet what the star himself can learn from his character, Marty Mauser, an aspiring table tennis player in 1950s New York City.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025
Gwyneth costars with Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme, which follows Chalamet, 29, as an aspiring professional table tennis player named Marty Mauser in the 1950s.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
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Xianda Huang, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
The filmmaker’s passion for foolhardy underdogs and train-wreck charmers electrifies this tale of a postwar striver (an unbelievable Timothée Chalamet) trying to make his name in table tennis.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
The moderator asked Chalamet what the star himself can learn from his character, Marty Mauser, an aspiring table tennis player in 1950s New York City.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025
Gwyneth costars with Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme, which follows Chalamet, 29, as an aspiring professional table tennis player named Marty Mauser in the 1950s.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Table tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table%20tennis. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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