Table Tennis Dictionary

Browse the table tennis dictionary and learn definitions for all the ping pong strokes, equipment characteristics and more:

Listed by Category. Switch to Alphabetical

• Strokes

  • Block
  • Brush
  • Chop
  • Counter
  • Drop Shot
  • Flick
  • Flip
  • Lob
  • Loop
  • Loop Kill
  • Push
  • Reverse Penhold Backhand (RPB)
  • Smash

• Strategy and Tactics

  • Cho
  • Chopper
  • Closed Angle
  • Dead Ball
  • Double Bounce
  • Extreme Angles
  • Falkenberg Drill
  • Footwork
  • Junk Player
  • Medium Long
  • Mid-Long Serve
  • Open Angle
  • Playing Elbow
  • Short Game
  • Step Around
  • Third-Ball Attack
  • Twiddle
  • Two-Winged Looper

• Equipment

  • Anti-Spin
  • Blade
  • Blade Speed Ratings
  • Carbon
  • Cypress Wood
  • Flex
  • Inverted Rubber
  • Long Pips
  • Medium Pips
  • Pad
  • Pips / Pimpled Rubber
  • Robot
  • Rubber
  • Short Pips
  • Speed Glue
  • Sponge
  • Sponge Hardness
  • Sponge Thickness
  • Stiffness
  • Tackiness / Tacky
  • Topsheet
  • VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds)

• Racket Handles or Grips

  • Anatomic Handle
  • Chinese Penhold Handle (CPEN)
  • Flared Handle
  • Japanese Penhold Handle (JPEN)
  • Penhold Grip
  • Seemiller Grip
  • Shakehand Grip
  • Straight Handle

• Physics

  • No-Spin
  • Sidespin
  • Spin
  • Spin Reversal
  • Throw Angle
  • Topspin
  • Underspin / Bottomspin / Backspin

• Other

  • Adham Sharara
  • Basement Player
  • Default
  • Equipment Junkie (EJ)
  • Fault
  • Free Hand
  • ITTF
  • Let
  • Playing Hand
  • Rating
  • USATT