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English
Pronunciation
Noun
table tennis (uncountable)
- A game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball across a table (fashioned like a mini tennis court) by rackets (paddles, bats (Britain)).
- Synonyms: ping pong, (archaic) flim-flam, (archaic) whiff-whaff, (precursor) gossima
Derived terms
Translations
game similar to tennis
- Albanian: pingpong (sq) m
- Arabic: بِينْغ بُونْغ m (bīnḡ būnḡ), كُرَة طَاوِلَة f (kurat ṭāwila), تَنِس طَاوِلَة m (tanis ṭāwila)
- Armenian: սեղանի թենիս (hy) (seġani tʻenis)
- Belarusian: насто́льны тэ́ніс m (nastólʹny ténis), пінг-по́нг m (pinh-pónh)
- Bengali: টেবিল টেনিস (ṭebil ṭeniś)
- Bulgarian: те́нис на ма́са m (ténis na mása), пинг по́нг m (ping póng)
- Burmese: စားပွဲတင်တင်းနစ် (my) (ca:pwai:tangtang:nac), ပင်ပေါင် (my) (pangpaung)
- Catalan: tennis de taula (ca) m, ping-pong (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 乒乓波 (yue) (bing1 bam1 bo1)
- Mandarin: 乒乓球 (zh) (pīngpangqiú), 桌球 (zh) (zhuōqiú) (Taiwan)
- Czech: stolní tenis (cs) m
- Danish: bordtennis (da) c, pingpong c
- Dutch: tafeltennis (nl) n, pingpong (nl)
- Esperanto: tabloteniso
- Estonian: lauatennis
- Finnish: pöytätennis (fi), pingis (fi)
- French: tennis de table (fr) m, ping-pong (fr) m
- Galician: tenis de mesa (gl) m, pimpón m
- Georgian: მაგიდის ჩოგბურთი (magidis čogburti)
- German: Tischtennis (de) n, Pingpong (de) n
- Greek: επιτραπέζια αντισφαίριση (el) f (epitrapézia antisfaírisi), πινγκ πονγκ (el) n (pingk pongk)
- Hebrew: טֶנִיס שׁוּלְחָן (he) m (ténis shulkhán), פִּינְג פּוֹנְג (he) m (ping pong)
- Hindi: पिंग पोंग (piṅg poṅg), टेबल टेनिस m (ṭebal ṭenis)
- Hungarian: asztalitenisz (hu), pingpong (hu)
- Icelandic: borðtennis (is) m
- Indonesian: tenis meja (id)
- Irish: ping pang m
- Italian: tennistavolo m, ping-pong (it) m, ping pong m
- Japanese: 卓球 (ja) (たっきゅう, takkyū), ピンポン (ja) (pinpon)
- Kazakh: үстел теннисі (üstel tennisı)
- Khiamniungan Naga: thīngnōi sīuh-îe
- Khmer: ប៉េងប៉ុង (peengpong), ពីងប៉ុង (piingpong), ប៉េងប៉ោង (peengpaong), កូនឃ្លីលើតុ (koon klii lǝǝ tok)
- Korean: 탁구(卓球) (ko) (takgu), 핑퐁 (ko) (pingpong)
- Lao: ປິງປ່ອງ (ping pǭng)
- Latvian: galda teniss m
- Lithuanian: stalo tenisas m
- Macedonian: пи́нг-понг m (píng-pong)
- Malay: pingpong
- Maltese: tejbiltenis, ping-pong
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ширээний теннис (šireenii tennis)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bordtennis m, pingpong
- Persian: پینگ پنگ (fa) (ping pong)
- Polish: tenis stołowy (pl) m, ping-pong (pl) m
- Portuguese: tênis de mesa m, pingue-pongue (pt) m
- Romanian: tenis de masă (ro) n
- Russian: насто́льный те́ннис (ru) m (nastólʹnyj tɛ́nnis), пинг-по́нг (ru) m (ping-póng)
- Scottish Gaelic: teanas-bùird m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стони тенис m, столни тенис m, пинг понг m
- Roman: stoni tenis m, stolni tenis m, ping pong m
- Sinhalese: මේස පන්දු (mēsa pandu)
- Slovak: stolný tenis (sk) m
- Slovene: namizni tenis (sl) m
- Spanish: tenis de mesa m, ping-pong m
- Swedish: bordtennis (sv), pingis (sv), pingpong (sv)
- Tamil: மேசைப்பந்தாட்டம் (mēcaippantāṭṭam)
- Thai: ปิงปอง (th) (bping-bpɔng), เทเบิลเทนนิส (th) (tee-bə̂l-ten-nís)
- Tibetan: པིང་པང (ping pang)
- Turkish: masa tenisi (tr)
- Ukrainian: насті́льний те́ніс m (nastílʹnyj ténis), пінг-по́нг (uk) m (pinh-pónh)
- Urdu: ٹیبل ٹینس m (ṭebal ṭenis)
- Vietnamese: bóng bàn (vi)
- Yakut: остуол тенниһэ (ostuol tennihe)
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Further reading
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