English-German translations for handball

• Handball der
  Ich bin Vorsitzender des Handballclubs Järnvägen im schwedischen Hallsberg. I am president of a sports association: the Järnvägen Handball Club in Hallsberg.
• Handballspiel das
• Handspiel das
  Um mich eines Fußballbeispiels zu bedienen, möchte ich an den Vorfall um Diego Maradonas Handspiel erinnern. To use a football reference, let us remember Diego Maradona's handball incident.

Definition of handball

• A team sport where two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team
• The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play
• A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules
• An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other
• To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods from one type of transport receptacle to another
• To pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other
• To insert a hand into someone's anus

Synonyms

• European handball
• Olympic handball
• team handball
• court handball

Examples

• If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded

Related words

• handballer
• handball player
• handball match
• handball club
• Czech handball
• game of handball