乒乓球运动起源于19世纪70年代的英国,原来是作为茶余饭后的一种代替草地网球的休闲运动的体育项目,但发展至今,已成为一项世界性的运动,并成为高科技与高速度的竞技体育项目。如果从参与这项运动的人口来看,乒乓球可以算是世界第一运动,由于其球小、速度快、变化多、趣味性强而又是中国的国球,所以受到人们的普遍喜爱。在众多的体育锻炼项目中,笔者认为,乒乓球运动以其自身特有的优势,必将在全民健身活动中占据一席地位。 Table tennis originated in England in the 1870s. It turned out to be a recreational sports alternative to grass tennis after gossip. However, it has become a worldwide sport and become a high-tech and high-speed Competitive sports. If from the population involved in this sport, table tennis can be regarded as the world’s first sport, due to its small, fast, changing, interesting and is China’s national ball, so by people’s universal love. In many physical exercise items, I believe that table tennis with its own unique advantages, is bound to occupy a seat in the national fitness activities.