table tennis

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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

table tennis table

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 (pinpon)
Kazakh: үстел теннисі (üstel tennisı)
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: ping pong
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 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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