Assertion: volleyball's player | /r/CapableOf | volley the ball
Facets:
value: over the net
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: over a net
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Later called volleyball due to the fact that players "volleyed" the ball back and forth, the sport was embraced by the US military and was played often in their free time.
text: A player thought to simplify the name by focusing on the key action in the sport—volleying a ball over a net—and named it volleyball.
text: While watching the game, someone commented that since the players were volleying the ball back and forth over the net, the name “volleyball” might be a more fitting name.
text: but it was later changed to volleyball, to describe the way players volley the ball back and forth over the net.
text: but it was later changed to volleyball, to describe the way players volley the ball back and forth over the net.
text: As for the name, Professor Alfred T. Halsted rechristened the sport as ‘volleyball’ in 1896, based on his observation that the players volleyed the ball back and forth.
text: The players in the boxed areas volley the ball back and forth and the middle player tries to block the ball.