handball (English, noun)
expansion: handball (countable and uncountable, plural handballs)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
glosses: The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
tags: countable
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
tags: countable
glosses: A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
tags: Ireland
US
uncountable
glosses: The small rubber ball used in this sport.
tags: US
countable
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
tags: countable
glosses: A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
tags: Australia
uncountable
Forms:
form: handballs
tags: plural