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What 🏓 means
A bat with a wide red paddle and a short wooden handle paired with a white ball. The 🏓 Ping Pong emoji represents the game, largely known as table tennis. It suggests indoor sports wherein the participants ought to have attributes such as mental and physical agility.
How and when to use it
- Idiomatically speaking, ping pong indicates back and forth movement, which can sometimes be aimless. So, if you're texting someone about a situation or a person who feels like ping pong, use 🏓 -"It's just on and off with him. I don't even know what's happening anymore 🏓".
- Similarly, you can also use 🏓 while posting or reposting content that aligns with this particular idiom of ping pong. For instance, "I don't understand what this series is about. It's just a bunch of aimless episodes going on and on and on 🏓".
- Literally speaking, use 🏓 in the caption while sharing pictures and/or videos of yourself playing a TT match, that of someone else (a friend/family), or even an iconic still from a great game.
Other Names
- 🏓 Table Tennis
- 🏓 Ping Pong Bat and Ball
- 🏓 TT
- 🏓 Paddle and Ball
- 🏓 Table Tennis Paddle and Ball
- 🏓 Short Racket and White Ball
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › sport
- Codepoints
U+1F3D3- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:ping_pong:GitHub · Discord:table_tennis_paddle_and_ball:Slack:table_tennis:Discord- Keywords
- ball, bat, game, paddle, ping, pingpong, pong, table, tennis
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏓 Ping Pong or ⛴️ Ferry?