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handball
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handball \Hand"ball`\ (h[a^]nd"b[add]l`), n.
A small ball, usually made of rubber, thrown or struck with the hand in various games.
A game played with such a ball, as by players striking it to and fro between them with the hands, or, when played in a walled court or against a single wall, striking it in turns against a wall, until one side or the other fails to return the ball.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 the sport of handball. 3 (context countable soccer English) The offence of touching the ball with the hands. vb. 1 To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacleto another. 2 (context soccer English) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm. 3 (context Australian Rules Football English) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other. 4 (context sexuality slang English) To insert a hand into someone's anus.
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
Handball (also known as team handball, Olympic handball, European team handball, European handball, or Borden ball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.
Modern handball is played on a court , with a goal in the center of each end. The goals are surrounded by a zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed; goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "jumping" into it. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball (which were more common in the past) and beach handball. The game is fast and high-scoring: professional teams now typically score between 20 and 35 goals each, though lower scores were not uncommon until a few decades ago. Body contact is permitted by the defenders trying to stop the attackers from approaching the goal.
The game was codified at the end of the 19th century in northern Europe and Germany. The modern set of rules was published in 1917 in Germany, and had several revisions since. The first international games were played under these rules for men in 1925 and for women in 1930. Men's handball was first played at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as outdoors, and the next time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich as indoors, and has been an Olympic sport since. Women's team handball was added at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
The International Handball Federation was formed in 1946, and has 197 member federations. The sport is most popular in continental Europe, whose countries have won all medals but one in men's world championships since 1938, and all women's titles until 2013, when Brazil broke the series. The game also enjoys popularity in the Far East, North Africa and parts of South America.
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.
Handball is an Olympic team sport.
Handball may also refer to:
- American handball
- Australian handball
- Beach handball
- Chinese handball, a variant of American handball popular in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s
- Czech handball
- Field handball, the original outdoor team handball, played at the 1936 Olympics
- Frisian handball
- Gaelic handball
- Four square, also called handball, a game played on four squares
- Handball (Australian rules football), a legal method of disposing of the ball and an alternative to a footpass
- Handball, a foul used in soccer for illegal use of arms or hands
School students in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji often play a style of handball (Also known as four square or - square, with the number in the latter determined by the amount of players) that is different from nearly all other types of handball. The game is played at recess, lunch or before and after school. It can also be played at home or anywhere that has a hard surface and at least one line. It has quick set-up time and simple rules, contributing to its popularity.
Unlike most types of handball, this version does not incorporate a wall, instead relying on lines on the ground. A typical handball court is a square split into four, usually by painted lines or expansion joints, with the highest and most prestigious position on the court being King, followed by Queen, then Jack, and the lowest ranking, dunce, toilet or rubbish bin, depending on the version. The most radical change from American handball is that players must bounce the ball (usually a tennis or high-bounce ball) in their own square first, until it is allowed to bounce into another player's square. Each player, if the ball bounces within their square, must then hit the ball with their hand, have it bounce within their own square once, and then an opponent's square. Failure to do so results in the player being relegated to the lowest position on the court, or the last of the players waiting to enter the court.
Due to the social nature of handball at school and the simplicity of playing, many variations to the rules can occur. For example, one group may play in a square of four while the next school over, the game is played in a straight line of six squares, radically altering the game. In addition, some variations of the game allow for the head or feet to be used to return the ball. As a result, this article only covers the most common rules and is not representative of every variation. In other words, the rules may vary between schools, but basic rules usually remain the same.
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.