Meaning

8 senses
  1. A ball.

    (countable, uncountable)A ball held in, or thrown with, the hand, especially one used for one of the various games in later senses, below.

  2. A game.

    (countable, uncountable)Any of various traditional ball games played outside between two goals often at a considerable distance from each other.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Any of several games similar to fives, in which a ball is hit by the hand against a wall or within a walled court (the chief variants now being Gaelic handball and American handball).

    a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands

  4. (uncountable)A sport played on a rectangular court between two teams of seven players each, using a small ball struck only with the hands; team handball.

  5. (Australia, uncountable)A schoolyard game in which a bouncy ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.

  6. An action.

    (countable)An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

  7. (countable)The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.

  8. A ball.

    (archaic, countable, uncountable)The hollow rubber ball squeezed to produce spray from a perfume bottle or other atomizer.

Examples

36 sentences
  1. I won the last time Tom and I played handball.

    Коли ми останнього разу грали з Томом в гандбол, я переміг. — deniko

  2. We watched Tom and Mary playing handball.

  3. Tom is going to play handball this afternoon.

  4. Tom and Mary are going to play handball.

  5. I'm going to play handball with Tom this afternoon.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
team sport:
football offence:
Русский
By meaning 1
team sport:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
team sport:
football offence:

Forms

plural: handballs
Singularhandball
Pluralhandballs

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
team sport involving throwing a ball into a goal:team handballEuropean handballOlympic handball
sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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