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aerial ping-pongnoun [mass noun] informal1(In ball games) play involving frequent exchanges of long and high kicks: suddenly the aerial ping-pong turned into a volley of tries...- The game began with aerial ping-pong, Simon Binns the winner finding touch close in where a crooked throw gave Otley a scrum.
- Conditions were becoming thoroughly unpleasant and the second half began with an unattractive bout of aerial ping-pong, interspersed with handling errors.
- Why they abandoned their running game to engage in aerial ping-pong with England almost beggared belief and could have cost them the match.
1.1Australian informal derogatory or humorous term for Australian Rules. I still prefer rugby to aerial ping-pong...- In Sydney or nearby, Australian rules football will be sometimes disparagingly referred to as "aerial ping-pong".
- To the AFL, if you're reading, Crikey's now mature enough to be at the biggest sporting event of 2003, but have we got the necessary 'street-cred' to cover your single nation aerial ping-pong in 2004?
- She came from Sydney to Melbourne thirty years ago, knowing a lot more about her first love, softball, than the hard ball gets and all the other jargon of Australian football-or aerial ping-pong, which is what she thought it was called.
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