handball

«handball» in Mova's school dictionary: a team game in which players throw and pass a ball with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (handball — the game, uncountable; a handball, handballs — a foul or a ball)

meaning for a pupil

1) Handball is a team game in which players throw and pass a ball with their hands and try to throw it into the other team's goal. tree →

2) In football (soccer), a handball is a foul when a player other than the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hand or arm. tree →

3) In some places, handball is a playground game of hitting a ball against a wall or into squares with the hand (also called «downball» or «four square»). tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE lessons, handball teaches passing, catching and teamwork; it is an Olympic sport. In football, «Handball!» is shouted when a player touches the ball with a hand, and the referee may give a free kick or penalty. In Australian schools, handball is a popular playground game in painted squares. In Australian football a «handball» is a way of passing by punching the ball from your hand.

examples

• We played handball in PE today. tree →
• The referee blew his whistle for a handball. tree →
• In handball you can take only three steps holding the ball. tree →
• At lunch we played handball in the four squares. tree →
• He was given a yellow card for a deliberate handball. tree →
• Our handball team won the school tournament. tree →

note

The game is uncountable («play handball»); the foul is countable («a handball»). Do not confuse with «hand ball» meaning any ball held in the hand. Rules differ between handball the Olympic game and playground handball.

In the corpora

• Popular sports in France include football, rugby, tennis, cycling, handball and judo; baseball is rare there.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «handball» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.