handball

noun
Elementary
1

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

The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.

3

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

4

A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.

5

The small rubber ball used in this sport.

6

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

7

A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.

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Consonance

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