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handball
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But today's beach games aren't quite the volleyball and handball that once kept a generation fit. ▪ Has to be team handball , an exciting blend of basketball, soccer, hockey and water polo. ▪ He works out, you know, skis up at ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small rubber ball used in the game of handball a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Handball or handpass is a skill in the sport of Australian rules football . It is the primary means of disposing of the football by hand, and is executed by holding the ball with one hand and punching it with the other.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. 2 (context countable English) The small rubber ball used in ...
Usage examples of handball.
Retaining racks on another held duckpins, Frisbees, hula hoops, and handballs.
A stale rehash of handball scores was no substitute for seeing the interdivisional games, and electronic checkers with your shipmate was damn sure no substitute for sex.
Anyone who has ever been obliged to play handball, football, volkerball, or faustball, let alone schlagball, in a field strewn with gravel will always, whenever he steps on gravel in later life, be forced to remember all the scraped knees, all those bruises which take forever to heal, which develop crusty scabs, and which transform all gravel-strewn playgrounds into blood-soaked playgrounds.
A green globe appeared, pulsing like a Cepheid, going from one meter in diameter down to the size of a handball and back up again every few seconds.
He didn't play tennis or handball, paid a kid (one of his, of course) to mow the lawn, and usually drove to the corner store when Harriett needed a loaf of bread.
When Shepard finally squeezed himself into the capsule and looked at the instrument panel, there was a little sign on it saying NO HANDBALL PLAYING IN THIS AREA.
Bordering the northern edge of Dead Town's residential district is a park with handball courts at one end and tennis courts at the other.
Until summer we lived at the shore battery, played endless games of handball, and on visiting Sundays rollicked to the best of our ability in the beach thistles, always with the same girls or their sisters.
Leaving the car to bake in the huge crowded parking lot he accompanied Faye, Billy and the two Seltzers (Izzy, from the subways, and his small daughter Natasha) past rows of automobiles and through the handball courts and onto the boardwalk and across the tract of hot sandy stone to the rail above the beach itself, the teeming strand, that long radiant curve endlessly submissive to the bleak waters of the Sound.
His features were small but his shoulders, his arms and his ribcage, bulged, as if from countless steam baths and from handball.
Bill knew, now, that he would be hounded day and night, his legs forced to perform in increasingly bizarre athletic events - golf, football, team handball, even synchronized swimming - until he told the sadistic Dr.
He looked directly into the camera, and Baedecker saw the same resolve and angry determination there that he remembered from the team handball tournaments held between Apollo crews.