Handball

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A game similar in scoring to volleyball that is played by two or more players who hit a ball against a wall with their hands usually while wearing a special glove.
  • n. The small rubber ball used in this game.
  • n. Team handball.
  • n. A violation of the rules in soccer in which a player other than the goalie inside the penalty area carries, strikes, or propels the ball with the hand or arm.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. The small rubber ball used in the sport of handball.
  • n. The offence of touching the ball with the hands.
  • n. An American sport in which players must, in turn, bounce a ball off of a wall, taking care not to miss their turn.
  • n. The small rubber ball used in this sport.
  • n. An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
  • n. An Irish sport, very similar to the American sport, in which players must bounce a ball off a wall.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
  • v. To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
  • v. To insert a hand into someone's anus.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small ball, usually made of rubber, thrown or struck with the hand in various games.
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The sport of throwing and catching a ball: the common game of ball before the use of bats.
  • n. A game in which a small ball is batted or struck by one of two players with his hand against a wall, and, on rebounding, is struck in like manner by the other. This continues until one player fails to strike and return the ball on the fly or first bound.
  • n. A bulb or hollow punctured ball of india-rubber designed to be compressed by the hand.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • n. a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    court game    ball   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    European handball    Olympic handball    team handball   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    volleyball    racquetball    badminton    netball    judo   
     
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