handball

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
noun a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands

From hand + ball.

But we don't want you out playing handball for a few days." — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover
Cranly took a small grey handball from his pocket and began to examine it closely, turning it over and over. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
So he had turned to a club where really searching inquiries were rarely made; for years he had belonged to a branch of the Y.M.C.A. located just off Broadway, and had played handball and boxed with chunky, slow-footed city detectives who were struggling to retain some physical activity, and with fat playwrights, and with Jewish theatrical managers, and with the few authentic Christians who occasionally strayed into the place and seemed ill at ease therein. — Children of the Whirlwind, Leroy Scott

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