team handball
noun
: a game developed from soccer which is played between two teams of seven players each and in which the ball is thrown, caught, and dribbled with the hands
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The first official team handball match was played in Germany in 1917.
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Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
Internationally, team handball was the second-most ticketed sport at the 2016 Rio Games.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
Women's finals are held after men's finals in volleyball and team handball.
—Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
In their last Olympics, NBCSN will have 440 hours of coverage including badminton, equestrian, beach volleyball, softball, soccer and team handball.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 7 July 2021
And its national sport is team handball -- Iceland finished second in the 2008 Olympic tournament -- not soccer.
—Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
What results is a culture that loves sports, whether it’s soccer, team handball or power-lifting.
—Grant Wahl, SI.com, 1 June 2018
For a country of 2.2 million people that has dabbled in everything from team handball to pro cycling, nothing has compared with soccer for cultivating influence.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
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Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
Internationally, team handball was the second-most ticketed sport at the 2016 Rio Games.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2021
Women's finals are held after men's finals in volleyball and team handball.
—Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
In their last Olympics, NBCSN will have 440 hours of coverage including badminton, equestrian, beach volleyball, softball, soccer and team handball.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 7 July 2021
And its national sport is team handball -- Iceland finished second in the 2008 Olympic tournament -- not soccer.
—Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 7 June 2018
What results is a culture that loves sports, whether it’s soccer, team handball or power-lifting.
—Grant Wahl, SI.com, 1 June 2018
For a country of 2.2 million people that has dabbled in everything from team handball to pro cycling, nothing has compared with soccer for cultivating influence.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
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First Known Use
1922, in the meaning defined above
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