ping pong ball

ping pong ball

English

Noun

ping pong ball (plural ping pong balls)

1. A lightweight celluloid ball used in the sport of table tennis (ping pong).
   • 1904, Frederick William Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh‎, New York: The New York Review of Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 9:

     The yellow cat deliberately stretched himself, yawned, and followed; and proceeded to carry out a wonderful scheme of feints and ambuscades in regard to a ping-pong ball which was kept for his proper diversion.

Translations

type of ball

Chinese: Cantonese: 乒乓波 (yue) (bing1 bam1 bo1) Mandarin: 乒乓球 (zh) (pīngpāngqiú), 桌球 (zh) (zhuōqiú) (Taiwan) Finnish: pöytätennispallo