1(in ball games) play involving frequent exchanges of long and high kicks.
suddenly the aerial ping-pong turned into a volley of tries
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Why they abandoned their running game to engage in aerial ping-pong with England almost beggared belief and could have cost them the match.
The game began with aerial ping-pong, Simon Binns the winner finding touch close in where a crooked throw gave Otley a scrum.
The result was that we were treated, if that is the word, to a form of aerial ping-pong, and not very well-directed kicking at that.
Conditions were becoming thoroughly unpleasant and the second half began with an unattractive bout of aerial ping-pong, interspersed with handling errors.
1.1Australian Australian Rules football.
I still prefer rugby to aerial ping-pong
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The match spawned a story which made headline news throughout the country, even in areas were Australian football was contemptuously referred to as 'aerial ping pong'.
He will think you are talking about “Aussie rules football,” what we northerners sometimes derogatorily call “aerial ping-pong”.
He postulates that regional identity extended to the need for a sport that was not attached to Australia, that being 'aerial ping-pong'.
As a result of the commitment of Jim and his brothers to Rules, eventually the Rugby League club disappeared and aerial ping-pong, as the non-believers still refer to it, prospered.
In Sydney or nearby, Australian rules football will be sometimes disparagingly referred to as "aerial ping-pong".
A brand of football affectionately known as "aerial ping pong" is one of the unique sporting events that crowd the annual calendar Down Under.
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.
I went down to Victoria and started playing that 'aerial ping-pong'.