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Tennis vs Handball - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tennis and handball

is that tennis is a sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets while handball is 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.

As verbs the difference between tennis and handball

is that tennis is to play tennis while handball is to manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacleto another.

tennis

English

(commons) (wikipedia tennis)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
  • (label) A match in this sport.
  • * 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
    • We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
  • (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
  • * (Shakespeare)
  • * (1800-1859)
    • His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.

    Derived terms

    * football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquet

    Related terms

    * tennis elbow

    See also

    * table tennis or ping pong

    Verb

  • (dated) To play tennis.
  • To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
    • (Spenser)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    handball

    English

    (wikipedia handball)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) 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.
  • (countable) The small rubber ball used in the sport of handball.
  • (countable, soccer) The offence of touching the ball with the hands.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Neil Johnston , title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (uncountable, US) An American sport in which players must, in turn, bounce a ball off of a wall, taking care not to miss their turn.
  • (countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
  • (countable, Australian Rules Football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
  • (Irish, uncountable) An Irish sport, very similar to the American sport, in which players must bounce a ball off a wall.

    • Synonyms

    * (team sport involving throwing a ball in the gall) European handball, Olympic handball, team handball * (American sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall) American handball * (Irish sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall) Irish handball

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacleto another.
  • (soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
    • If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
  • (Australian Rules Football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
  • * 2001 , Jerry R. Thomas, Alan G. Launder, Jack K. Nelson, Play Practice: The Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports , page 111,
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , (Andrew McLeod), Trevor D. Jaques, Australian Football: Steps to Success , page 9,
    • An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing .
  • * 2009 , John P. Devaney, Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs , page 246,
    • 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.
  • (sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.

    • References

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