Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word HANDBALL

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Definitions of HANDBALL

1. 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.
2. (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.
3. (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
4. (countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
5. (uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
6. (countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
7. (countable, Australian Rules Football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
8. (uncountable, Australia) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
9. (soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
10. (Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
11. (sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.

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Examples of Using HANDBALL in a Sentence

• Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.
• In 1946, the International Handball Federation was founded by eight European nations, and though non-European nations competed at the World Championships, the medals had always been taken by European nations.
• The 1994 European Men's Handball Championship was the inaugural edition of the tournament, held in Portugal from 3 to 12 June 1994, in the cities of Porto and Almada.
• The 1996 European Men's Handball Championship was the second edition of the tournament and held in Spain from 24 May to 2 June 1996, in the cities of Ciudad Real and Seville.
• The 1998 European Men's Handball Championship was the third edition of the tournament and held in Italy from 29 May to 7 June 1998, in the cities of Meran and Bolzano.
• The 2000 European Men's Handball Championship was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held in Croatia from 21 to 30 January 2000, in the cities of Zagreb and Rijeka.
• In sports, the city is known as the home of the top-tier handball club, multiple Polish Champion, and one-time EHF Champions League winner Vive Kielce.
• Besides football it had other departments in sports, such as volleyball, women's handball, and rhythmic gymnastics.
• Such positions exist in bandy, rink bandy, camogie, association football, Gaelic football, international rules football, floorball, handball, hurling, field hockey, ice hockey, roller hockey, lacrosse, ringette, rinkball, water polo, and shinty, as well as in other sports.
• The park in total has four tennis courts, four basketball courts, two handball courts, three baseball fields, a softball field, many soccer fields, multiple picnic groves equipped with grills, three hiking/biking trails, fishing, animal haven, and a gazebo.
• Other sports that can be practiced in Borås are: archery, track and field, rowing, handball, table tennis, tennis, skiing, orienteering, sport shooting, swimming, golf, equestrian, bowling, cheerleading, floorball and various martial arts.
• Maria Fisker Stokholm (born 1990 in Hadsten) a handball player for Viborg HK and the Danish national team.
• The new centre was designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and is used for a wide variety of activities, including team handball fitness and yoga as well as concerts and other cultural events.
• Sport & Academy organizes training for football, badminton, gymnastics, swimming, handball and golf.
• Lars Møller Madsen (born 1981), a retired handball player who won the European Men's Handball Championship in 2008 with Denmark.
• Lea Hansen (born 1999 in Rødekro) a Danish handball player who currently plays for Silkeborg-Voel KFUM.
• He studied Jurisprudence in Fribourg, Zürich, and Geneva, and was an avid handball player during his youth.
• At the same time (1995), the World Championship was changed from a quadrennial to a biannual event, and the European Handball Federation now began its own championship – which also acted as a regional qualifier for the World Championship.
• Local sports club Frisch Auf Göppingen currently play in the German first team handball men's top division Handball-Bundesliga.
• Other popular sports and activities include team handball, motocross, athletics, shooting sports, social dance, floorball, baton twirling, rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, and martial arts.
• Football (be it association, rugby, gridiron, Australian rules, or Gaelic) is typically played in a stadium, while basketball, volleyball, handball, and ice hockey are typically played in an arena, although many of the larger arenas hold more spectators than do the stadiums of smaller colleges or high schools.
• Various other forms of handball may be related to one degree or another; this is generally difficult to ascertain with certainty, and some, like the Mesoamerican ballgame clearly have an independent origin.
• It is also known as court tennis in the United States, royal tennis in England and Australia, and courte-paume in France (to distinguish it from longue-paume, and in reference to the older, racquetless game of jeu de paume, the ancestor of modern handball and racquet games).
• Fives (historically known as hand-tennis) is an English handball sport derived from jeu de paume, similar to the games of handball, Basque pelota, and squash.
• Albert was an enthusiastic sportsman, participating in cross country, javelin throwing, handball, judo, swimming, tennis, rowing, sailing, skiing, squash and fencing.

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