team handball

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Definition of team handball

: 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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And its national sport is team handball -- Iceland finished second in the 2008 Olympic tournament -- not soccer. — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, "Iceland comfortable with Cinderella title, but wants to prove it belongs in the World Cup," 7 June 2018 What results is a culture that loves sports, whether it’s soccer, team handball or power-lifting. — Grant Wahl, SI.com, "The Little Nation That Can: Iceland's Underdogs Take on the World Cup Stage," 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, "Why Paris Saint-Germain Is Set to Break the Bank for Neymar," 2 Aug. 2017

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