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    Posted: 01/14/2018 at 4:43pm
I've always wondered where the different terminology comes from. As far as I know, most people in my region (South Australia) call them table tennis bats.

What do you call them in your region?
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In my local league we call it a bat (UK).

When I am buying new equipment for myself, I call the middle bit (wood or composite) the blade and the whole thing a bat.

I've never called it a paddle though, is that more an American term?

Being curious I wondered what Wikipedia said....

"The ITTF uses the term "racket",[27] though "bat" is common in Britain, and "paddle" in the U.S. and Canada."
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Originally posted by Medax Medax wrote:

"The ITTF uses the term "racket",[27] though "bat" is common in Britain, and "paddle" in the U.S. and Canada."

Interesting... makes you wonder why the ITTF would choose a terms that's not the common term used in the biggest english-speaking countries.
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As far as I have been able to figure out:

Blade: the wooden part, usually constructed from several layers of wood and sometimes with carbon layers or other composites.

Racket/paddle: The blade plus the two rubbers glued to the blade. The complete assembly.

Nobody has really come out and defined the terms clearly.

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Originally posted by Fulanodetal Fulanodetal wrote:

As far as I have been able to figure out:

Blade: the wooden part, usually constructed from several layers of wood and sometimes with carbon layers or other composites.

Racket/paddle: The blade plus the two rubbers glued to the blade. The complete assembly.

Nobody has really come out and defined the terms clearly.

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Yes I agree with that, but what do you call it in your region, a bat, racket or paddle?
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Denmark: bat

Just to increase the confusion - translated, the blade is called "bat-wood', irrespective of its nature (all-wood or composite). 


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Wood without rubber = blade
Wood with rubber = bat

I always felt the shape reassembled a racket but then if you think about it one potentially characterizing trait of a racket is the strings which tt doesn't have.

Region is New Zealand.
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"Yes I agree with that, but what do you call it in your region, a bat, racket or paddle?"

"Racket". In Canada I have never heard anybody talking about a "bat" while talking about tt. "Bats" are used in baseball and Cricket. "Paddle" and "racket" are used interchangeably. 


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Mainly paddle. Some international students call them bats. I think racket is the rarest form, usually implying tennis, badminton, or racketball/squash.

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Where I grew up it is called "matka".

Edit: ok fine, racket.


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In India, some call it a bat and some call it a racket. Cricket and badmiton are the two dominant sports in India. All those people who are gravitated towards Cricket call it a bat while the ones who like badminton more call it racket.

Since cricket is also a common and appreciated sport in countries like UK, Australia and New Zealand, they prefer to use the word "bat".
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In my country the usual term is bat, but I have heard somebody called it as frame, but this is rare. Racket is more used for badminton, tennis and squash. The term paddle makes me think to an oar to paddle a canoe Big smile
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I taught PE for 28 years. The way I always helped my students get it was ...if it has strings it is a racket, so we have tennis rackets and badminton rackets and squash rackets.  If no strings then it is a paddle (solid) so table tennis paddle and there is a game called paddleball where you hit a tennis ball with a solid, no strings, paddle. Sometime in paddleball there are holes drilled through the wood paddle to make it lighter but it should still be called a paddle because no strings.   The term bat comes from baseball and cricket and is incorrect but often used in table tennis.  
  One final example in racketball why do they call it a "racket"  The critical component is the strings.Wink
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blade, with rubbers on bat
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It's a bat, but trying to find the right one is a racket.
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if someone usually asks me at tournament... They usually say:
"What blade do you use" or "What racket you play with" Nobody ever asked me what BAT or PADDLE do you use...

That being sad here is different websites, and how they call them:
megaspin.com (Racket) blade w/rubbers
paddlepalace.com (Paddle) blade w/rubbers
butterflyonline.com (Racket) blade w/rubbers
tabletennis11.com (Racket) blade w/rubbers
stigatabletennis.com (Bat) blade w/rubbers
tibhar.de (Bat) blade w/rubbers


I rather just like to stick to BLADE as referring to wood and RUBBER

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