handball

CEFRB1

/hˈæˌndbɔl/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
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.
An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

In context

If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.

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It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport
Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.
2001, Jerry R. Thomas, Alan G. Launder, Jack K. Nelson, Play Practice: The Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports, page 111
An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing.
2005, Andrew McLeod, Trevor D. Jaques, Australian Football: Steps to Success, page 9
On only 8 occasions during the entire match did players who had marked the ball decide not to walk slowly and purposefully back and take their kick, but instead play on by handballing to a team mate.
2009, John P. Devaney, Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, page 246
Now six months into the role I have come to learn that the boss’s idea of empowering and delegating is actually handballing or passing off tasks that they actually should be performing themselves.
2022 August 26, Jonathan Rivett, “My boss is handballing rather than delegating tasks. What should I do?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

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