table tennis
table tennis noun: a game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball with rackets (called paddles, or bats in Britain) across a table fashioned like a miniature tennis court.
Noun
table tennis (uncountable)
- A game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball with rackets (called paddles, or bats in Britain) across a table fashioned like a miniature tennis court.
- An AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a landmark achievement for a machine faced with a human athlete in a real-world competitive sport.2026 April 22, Ian Sample, “AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- ping pong, flim-flam, whiff-whaff, gossima
table tennis meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
table tennis in Hindi
- game similar to tennis
- पिंग पोंग piṅg poṅg, टेबल टेनिस ṭebal ṭenis
table tennis in Tamil
- game similar to tennis
- மேசைப்பந்தாட்டம் mēcaippantāṭṭam
table tennis in Urdu
- game similar to tennis
- ٹیبل ٹینس ṭebal ṭenis
table tennis in Bengali
- game similar to tennis
- টেবিল টেনিস ṭebil ṭeniś
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- table tennis in Kannada
- ಟೇಬಲ್ ಟೆನ್ನಿಸ್
- table tennis in Sinhala
- මේස පන්දු mēsa pandu
- table tennis in Arabic
- بِينْغ بُونْغ bīnḡ būnḡ, كُرَة طَاوِلَة kurat ṭāwila, تَنِس طَاوِلَة tanis ṭāwila
- table tennis in Malay
- pingpong
- table tennis in Indonesian
- tenis meja
- table tennis in Persian
- پینگ پنگ ping pong
- table tennis in Thai
- ปิงปอง bping-bpɔng, เทเบิลเทนนิส tee-bə̂l-ten-nís
- table tennis in Vietnamese
- bóng bàn
- table tennis in Myanmar
- စားပွဲတင်တင်းနစ် ca:pwai:tangtang:nac, ပင်ပေါင် pangpaung
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Questions about table tennis
- What does table tennis mean?
- Table tennis means a game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball with rackets (called paddles, or bats in Britain) across a table fashioned like a miniature tennis court.
- What is table tennis in Hindi?
- Table tennis in Hindi is पिंग पोंग (piṅg poṅg), टेबल टेनिस (ṭebal ṭenis). See Table tennis meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is table tennis?
- Table tennis is a noun.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: table tennis (page history and authors); table tennis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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