handball

Meanings

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.
• 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.

Verb

• 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.
• To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
• To insert a hand into someone's anus.

Related

Similar words

• European handball, Olympic handball, team handball
• court handball

Narrower meaning words

• American handball, Gaelic handball, Irish handball

Origin

• From hand + ball.