Handball

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Handball is the name of several different sports:

  • Team handball, Olympic sport in which two teams try to throw the ball into their opponents' goal
  • Gaelic handball, a sport similar to squash where players hit the ball with a hand instead of a racquet
  • American handball, a sport similar to squash where players hit the ball with a hand instead of a racquet, which originates from Gaelic handball
  • Australian handball, similar to the American and Irish versions, with a defined culture and rule set
  • Basque pelota and Valencian pilota, handball games played in Spain
  • Chinese handball, a variant of American handball popular on the streets of New York City during the 1960s and 70s
  • Fives, a hand ball game played in a small number of English public schools
  • Four square, also known as downball in Australia, a game played on two or more squares
  • Frisian handball (keatsen), a game played in Friesland in the northern Netherlands between two teams of three players
  • Reverse handball, a radical but growing variation of four square in Australia, involving the use of external objects

Handball can also refer to:

Handballing may refer to the sexual act of fisting.

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