Handball

Handball

Handball is a team sport usually played with seven players on each team one of whom is a goalie, the object of the game is to throw the ball into the opposing team's goal. There are usually two 30 minute periods at the end of the game the team with the most goals wins.

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corner throw

Sports; Handball

When a defender, other than the goalkeeper, has knocked the ball over the back line, the team on offense throws the ball back inbounds from a corner closest to where the ball went out of bounds.

court

Sports; Handball

(Team Handball) What the playing field in team handball is called. The Court is 40 meters (44 yards) long and 20 meters (22 yards) wide. (Court Handball) Handball courts are 20 feet wide and 20 feet ...

court hinder

Sports; Handball

When the ball takes an irregular bounce because the court is wet or because of some object it has hit.

crotch ball

Sports; Handball

When the ball hits any two walls, a wall and the ceiling or a wall and the floor.

cutthroat

Sports; Handball

This is a game of handball that has three players playing.

dead ball hinder

Sports; Handball

This is the opposite on an avoidable hinder. The point is replayed on the event of a Dead Ball Hinder. See Avoidable Hinder and all the Rules of the Game Section for further explanation.