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pingpong (countable and uncountable, plural pingpongs)

1. Alternative form of ping pong.

pingpong (third-person singular simple present pingpongs, present participle pingponging, simple past and past participle pingponged)

1. Alternative form of ping pong.

Borrowed from English ping pong.

• IPA^(key): /penɡpɔnɡ/, [ˈpʰeŋˌpʰʌŋ], [pʰeŋˈpʰʌŋ]

pingpong c (singular definite pingpongen, not used in plural form)

1. ping pong, table tennis
2. ping pong, quick dialogue, repartee

• (table tennis): bordtennis

Borrowed from English ping pong.

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pingpong n (uncountable)

1. ping pong, table tennis

• (table tennis): tafeltennis

pingpong

1. inflection of pingpongen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from English ping pong, of onomatopoeic origin, trademarked by British sports and game equipment manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpimpoŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: ping‧pong
• Rhymes: -oŋɡ

pingpong (usually uncountable, plural pingpongok)

1. (informal) ping pong

   Synonym: asztalitenisz

Pingpong and asztalitenisz are synonyms for table tennis. However, pingpong is used more often in the spoken language and in informal situations and it may also refer to the everyday version of the sport that anyone can play while asztalitenisz means the professional version played by athletes. *Ping-pong with a hyphen is incorrect spelling in all derivations. [1]

The same distinction appears in other pairs of sports-related terms (see below), where in all cases the native term (first column) is the one used in professional or official contexts, and the borrowed one (second column) is to some varying degree colloquial:

labdarúgás ~ futball (“football”)

ökölvívás ~ boksz (“boxing”)

kerékpár ~ bicikli (“bicycle”)

• pingpong in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpinkpɔnk]

pingpong m inan (genitive singular pingpongu, nominative plural pingpongy, genitive plural pingpongov, declension pattern of dub)

1. ping pong, table tennis

   Synonym: stolný tenis

• “pingpong”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

pingpong c

1. (sports, informal) ping pong (table tennis)

   Synonyms: (more common) pingis, (not informal) bordtennis

• pingpongboll
• pingpongbord
• pingpongracket

• pingpong in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pingpong in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pingpong in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• pimpong
• ping pong

Borrowed from English ping pong, a genericized trademark of onomatopoeic origin. Contrary to a common misconception, the word does not originate from Chinese 乒乓 (pīngpāng).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋpoŋ/ [ˈpim.poŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋpoŋ
• Syllabification: ping‧pong

pingpong (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜅ᜔ᜉᜓᜅ᜔) (sports)

1. ping pong; table tennis

• “pingpong”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “pingpong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018