What's the name of this game in English?

Question

I've tried to draw a little diagram below to explain this, so I hope it works! Ok, so you're playing table tennis with 4 people (A, B, C & D). Two players face each other on opposite sides of the net (A & C). Two others stand next to the net (B & D). A hits the ball to C and moves round the table in a clockwise direction, so he ends up where B is. B moves round to where C is. C, meanwhile has hit the ball and moves round to where D is. And D is moves round to where A began, hits the ball and moves round again........ Each player gets a turn at hitting the ball by moving around the table. It's for a translation, French to English. The French call it 'table tournante' (turning table) but I don't know if English speakers would understand what that means. Thank you!!

............. B
...--------------------
.. I ...........N ........ I
A I .......... E..........I C
.. I .......... T ........ I
.. ---------------------
............... D

It's a way of playing a game called Centre Ball with 6 or 8 players. Please ignore the full stops in my diagram by the way - they were the only way I could get the letters and dashes to stay in place :-)

Answer 1

we called it 'round the table' when we played at school.

You should just show them your funky diagram, it's pretty self explanitary

Answer 2

Sounds a lot like killer (but killer can be played for anysport so maybe killer table tennis??) but if ur doing a french translation the best wasy to get around it is to keep the words in french in quotation marks and then do a footnote explaing what it is and maybe writing turning table tennis.

Yours
fellow french student!

Answer 3

I've never heard of it. A possilility is round robin table tennis.

Answer 4

I have never seen it or heard of it but it looks and sounds a fun way to play table tennis.

Answer 5

OMG like I know nobody that plays that But I LOVE THAT GAME!!

I call it turning tennis, or turning table tennis.

AMAZING!!

Answer 6

All you need is a little alcohol, and you got yourself a drinking game there. I say you call it drunk driving turning table tennis!!!

Answer 7

We played a game like that when I was a kid called Four Squares.

Answer 8

i think this might be "real tennis" played in kig henry the 6ths time, lazy git

Answer 9

we used to call it killer at school and you were out if you missed a shot...

Answer 10

We call it Algebra.