table tennis
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- noun
- /ˈteɪbəl ˈtɛnɪs/
:
tenis de mesa
- Some folks like to hang out and play table tennis.
- table tennis players
- elite table tennis
- sports like table tennis
So I'm a huge fan of table tennis and pickleball and tennis.
- So I'm a huge fan of table tennis and pickleball and tennis.
- And then this here, these are table tennis bats.
- When your clients want to go do this stuff and they want to go gamble on table tennis, red flags are flying.
- But tennis, table tennis, racquetball, now pickleball, badminton are on the top.
- It is a table tennis or ping pong net that fits onto your dining table.
- Like soccer, for example, is the best team in table tennis, as was Brazil to soccer.
Examples
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Many students enjoy playing table tennis during their break time.
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We should get together sometime, play some table tennis.
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Were you playing table tennis on your own again?
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You want to play some table tennis?
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How many points is a doubled game of table tennis played to?
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I haven't played table tennis in quite a while.
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I do one-on-one table tennis training with a coach twice a week.
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So I'm a huge fan of table tennis and pickleball and tennis.
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You'd be like, I'm I'm going to crush you at table tennis and I just, I feel bad.
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Presented to Forrest Gump, member of the United States table tennis team, as player of the year for 1971.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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1.1
A game on a table with a net where players hit a small ball with paddles
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A game like tennis played on a table using small paddles and a light ball
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Morphology
The meaning 'a game like tennis played on a table' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'table' (flat surface) with 'tennis' (the sport). This transparent compound follows a common pattern cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'tenis de mesa', French 'tennis de table'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Table tennis began as a small, indoor version of tennis played on a table. People used small paddles to hit a light ball over a low net on a table, so the name links 'table' and 'tennis' and now means the indoor game with paddles and a light ball.