handball
Meaning of handball
noun
- 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.
- The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
- The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
- A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
- The small rubber ball used in this sport.
- (Australian Rules Football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
- To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
- To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
- To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
- (sexuality) To insert a hand into someone's anus.
Information about handball
- The plural form of handball is: handballs.
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Hyphenation of handball
hand-ball
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- handball is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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