It was round, with a handle, a little like a table tennis bat.

What I did not know was that they also hold their cigarettes the way we hold table tennis bats.

In his autobiography, Barnes said that he first picked up a table tennis bat when visiting a snooker hall with an uncle.

Dariat just managed to deflect the bolt, thumping it aside with a fist he imagined as a fat table tennis bat.

"Bat" is derived from the French "battledore", shaped like a table tennis bat, which was used by washerwomen to beat their washing with.

House then goads his fellow patients into creating havoc in the ward over not being allowed table tennis bats, but Dr. Nolan subdues them.

It's called Polypterus and it's about 12" long, blue grey in colour with a white underside and pectorals that look like table tennis bats.

It was a hopeless task because each of the flies was about the size of a winged bottle top and all she had was a table tennis bat.

She had scarlet fever and when convalescing her brother Gaston, who was almost eight years older, came home with table tennis bats, balls, and a net to entertain her.

Gas pipes or various cast-offs from plumbers were being cut to length to produce different pitches when hit on an open end by a flip flop or table tennis bat.

It was on this occasion that he picked up a table tennis bat for the first time and realized that there was a lot of skill required to play it well.

Any standard table tennis bats and balls maybe used, along with a standard sized table tennis table, as prescribed by the International Table Tennis Federation.

She grabbed up her table tennis bat, rolled up her sleeve, stomped off to her pile of dead goat-like things, and started to set about the flies with vim and vigour.

Most offer more than 50 per cent off the cost, not only of the activity, such as badminton, karate, table tennis, swimming or rowing, for example, but also of the equipment: badminton racquets, table tennis bats and rowing boats.