handball

Definitions

• (uncountable) 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.
• (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
• (countable) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
• (uncountable) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
• (countable) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
• (countable) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
• (uncountable) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.