handball

Meaning

Noun

1. (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.
2. (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
3. (countable) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
4. (Ireland, US, uncountable) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
5. (US, countable) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
6. (countable) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
7. (Australia, uncountable) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.

Verb

1. (transitive) 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. To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
3. To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
4. (slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.

Synonyms

ball

football

🏈

hand ball

handling

medicine ball

roll

volleyball

🏐

hand on the ball

Translations

handball

Handball

balonmano

handbal

handbol

pallamano

andebol

hentbol

handball

main

✋

χειροσφαίριση

handebol

palla muro

Etymology

From hand + ball.