team handball

noun

1. a game, similar to soccer, played between two teams of seven players who catch, dribble, throw, or hit the ball with the hands.

Word History and Origins

Origin of team handball¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Quadball feels like a wonky half-sibling of lacrosse and team handball.

From Seattle Times

The same Pierre Mauroy Stadium also stages men’s and women’s team handball through the end of the Olympics.

From Seattle Times

The same Pierre Mauroy Stadium also stages men’s and women’s team handball through the end of the Olympics.

From Washington Times

I also met a range of regulars: Sherry Winn, a speaker, author, leadership coach and two-time Olympic athlete in team handball; John Dinsdale, the owner of Beartooth Concrete, who shared with me that he’d recently lost his wife; Jan LaForge Flanagan, a Crow woman who told me she was recently married.

From New York Times

Bambur made it from Bosnia to Serbia and eventually to the United States, where he was working on his degree and training for team handball when a car crash left him paralyzed from the waist down.

From Seattle Times