table tennis

1. 1.

   a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball

   SynonymsPing-Pong

   Broadertable game

   trademark

Questions about table tennis

What does table tennis mean?

table tennis means "a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball".

What is another word for table tennis?

Close synonyms include Ping-Pong. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is table tennis a common word?

table tennis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.