An indoor game based on tennis, played with small paddles and a ball bounced on a table divided by
a net. Image result for definition of table tennis table tennis, also called (trademark) Ping-Pong, ball game similar in principle to lawn tennis and played on a flat table divided into two equal courts by a net fixed across its width at the middle.
A racket game played between two players or pairs of players who hit a ball to and fro over a net on a rectangular court of grass, asphalt, or clay. Table tennis is played with two or four people
and they will battle out till the ralley is over giving a person a point. Table tennis is not just a little game, it is a sport and also a life style.
It was in England, in the late 19th century, that table tennis made its appearance. Taking inspiration from lawn tennis, the first players belonged to middle-class Victorian society.
The first game would have been played using a champagne cork as a ball, cigar boxes as bats and books for the net.
The earliest surviving action game of Tennis on a table is a set made by David Foster, patented in England in 1890.
The name comes from the larger sport of Tennis which is basically Table tennis on a large scale.
The name "Ping Pong" comes from the company who trade markeded the name which spread like wild fire and bascially made the name in everyones mind change to Ping pong from table tennis.