EGAVE

handball

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A ball. A ball held in, or thrown with, the hand, especially one used for one of the various games in later senses, below. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} The hollow rubber ball squeezed to produce spray from a perfume bottle or other atomizer.
  2. noun A ball held in, or thrown with, the hand, especially one used for one of the various games in later senses, below. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. noun The hollow rubber ball squeezed to produce spray from a perfume bottle or other atomizer.
  4. noun A game. Any of various traditional ball games played outside between two goals often at a considerable distance from each other. Any of several games similar to fives, in which a ball is hit by the hand against a wall or within a walled court (the chief variants now being Gaelic handball and American handball). A sport played on a rectangular court between two teams of seven players each, using a small ball struck only with the hands; team handball. A schoolyard game in which a bouncy ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
  5. noun Any of various traditional ball games played outside between two goals often at a considerable distance from each other.
  6. noun Any of several games similar to fives, in which a ball is hit by the hand against a wall or within a walled court (the chief variants now being Gaelic handball and American handball).
  7. noun A sport played on a rectangular court between two teams of seven players each, using a small ball struck only with the hands; team handball.
  8. noun A schoolyard game in which a bouncy ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.

Similar words

volleyball touch hand hand ball handballer fieldball goalball netball handpass field handball

Often followed by

courts and court or players is in player with

Word family

handballs

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