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Spell Bee Word: Table tennis


What does table tennis mean?

Word: Table tennis

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Table tennis means a game in which two or four players hit a small, light ball back and forth over a low net on a table.

How do you spell table tennis?

Syllables: ta - ble ten - nis

Tricky part: Table ends in le, not el, so tabel is the usual slip.

Watch out for: tabel tennis, table tennes, tabble tennis

Memory tip: The le at the end of table is the same as in cable and stable: l first, then a quiet e.

Table tennis in a sentence

Example 1: Aditi practises table tennis for an hour after school.

Example 2: Sharath Kamal is a famous Indian table tennis player.

Example 3: The table tennis ball bounced off the edge and rolled away.

Fun Fact

Table tennis became an Olympic sport at the 1988 Seoul Games. The ball weighs only about 2.7 grams.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) table tenniss
b) table tennis
c) taible tennis
d) teble tennis

Show answer

b) table tennis. Table has a plain a, and tennis ends in a single s.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) vollyball
b) table tennis
c) hocky
d) badmintan

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b) table tennis. Hockey needs ey, and badminton and volleyball each have a letter out of place; table tennis is right as written.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Ravi and his cousin play table tenis every evening at the club.

a) club
b) tenis
c) evening
d) cousin

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b) tenis. Ten-nis: one n ends the first beat and another starts the second.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: table tennis

a) golf
b) ping-pong
c) squash
d) snooker

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b) ping-pong. Ping-pong is another, more casual name for table tennis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In table tennis, players hit the ball with a ____.

a) club
b) glove
c) hockey stick
d) bat

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d) bat

2. Where is table tennis usually played?

a) on a grass field
b) in a swimming pool
c) on a sandy beach
d) indoors, in a hall

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d) indoors, in a hall

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