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^[1], 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
• Swedish: pingisboll (sv) c, bordtennisboll (sv) c, pingpongboll c