Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) Australian Rules football.

1945		West Australian (Perth) 24 Nov. 5/6: Brave New Words [...] The most popular Army gamble is the ‘swi game,’ [...] Australian rules football, ‘aerial pingpong’.
1954		Oeser & Hammond Social structure and Personality 33: Australian Rules Football [...] has been described by Rugby players, in a derogatory, but descriptive fashion, as 'aerial ping-pong'. Major teams represent mainly industrial cities in the metropolis.
1965		F.J. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 43: That’s not football, mate, it’s aerial ping-pong.
1973		J. Dunn, How to Play Football 28: Sydneysiders like to call Australian Rules ‘aerial ping-pong’ .
1976		Bulletin (Sydney) 98 31/3: Ron Barassi, a Melbourne furniture retailer and former aerial ping-pong star.
1980		H. Lunn Behind the Banana Curtain 187: I won’t comment much on their football — called aerial pingpong in Queensland — because I don’t understand it.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 8: aerial ping-pong Australian Rules Football. used derisively, especially by people from States in which rugby and not Australian Rules is the major football code.
1998		Bug (Aus.) 24 Feb. 🌐 Gosh, is it any wonder why the young un’s are turning up to the sissy aerial ping pong played by poofs in tight pants!