"I will practice playing table tennis at school in the afternoon."

Translation: 我下午会在学校练习打乒乓球。

[JGreene68356]

Natives never say it the way it is in the other example. You are correct that 玩 is used for things like board/video games. I know a lot of native speaking players and they always use 打.

[7ga4Ktv4]

good to know.. in another sentence with ping pong i typed 打 which was accepted but it said you could also say this and they used 玩 so with this sentence i typed 玩 and was marked wrong. i copied what i had typed and next time around pasted and replaced 玩 with 打 and it was accepted.
so now i stick to 打 as that seems to be the correct way as i initially thought.

[Cat722536]

So, you can use either "玩" or "打" for play? Sports play is not just reserved for "打" and table games/video games is not just reserved for "玩"? Asking because another example sentence about table tennis used the character, "玩" while this one used "打".

[wanderdugg]

Is “下午我会在学校..." wrong?

[Anora134070]

No

[juniorr2019]

No

[maartendoc]

That's accepted now!

[YashaswiSi645065]

No that is right

[YashaswiSi645065]

But what is this❓ we can say wo xia wu... xia wu wo...

[Anora134070]

Why 下午我会练习打乒乓球在学校 is wrong?

[Gabrielle145359]

The location phrase "在学校” needs to go in front of the verb.

[s_a_r_i_t_a]

May I say 我下午会在学校练习琓乒乓球。?

[Jos907263]

Another possibility 我下午在学校会练习打乒乓球。

[Ramy.Taraboulsi]

"我下午在学校练习会打乒乓球" was rejected.
The location of "会" is confusing me. What would it mean if I put it just before 打乒乓球

[sandorwat]

It doesn't mean anything because it's not correct. The "会" has to go before the "练习" because you "will practice" table tennis, not you "practice will" table tennis.

[SmithUA01]

NB "practice" is the noun. It should be "I will practise", here and elsewhere

[carpiediem]

Americans never spell practice with an s, so both versions ought to be allowed.