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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 Release Date: December 25, 2025 Timothée Chalamet ping-ponged from one biopic to the next, having portrayed Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown and is now tackling the story of table tennis pro Marty Reisman, whose story forms the loose basis of Josh Safdie's latest film, Marty Supreme.
—Billie Melissa, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
There, Huang’s skills caught the eye of Paddle Palace owner Lou Bochenski, whose daughter Judy was a table tennis champion and member of the U.S. national team.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
China is so stacked in table tennis, Long didn’t even qualify for the singles events, which allows for two players per county.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
But its handling of the table tennis competition suggests old expectations may persist, too.
—Adam Nagourney Lisa Lerer Hannah Beech Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1891, in the meaning defined above
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“Table tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table%20tennis. Accessed 22 Jan. 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
More from Merriam-Webster on table tennis
Nglish: Translation of table tennis for Spanish Speakers
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