A group of young men are playing handball in the playground.
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Handball
Synonyms for "handball" (25 found)
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16 entriesTranslations
115 translations across 50 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- hendboll noun (team sport)
Arabic
1 entries- كُرَة يَد noun (team sport)
Armenian
2 entries- հանդբոլ noun (team sport)
- ձեռնագնդակ noun (team sport)
Basque
1 entries- eskubaloi noun (team sport)
Belarusian
1 entries- гандбо́л noun (team sport)
Bulgarian
2 entries- игра с ръка noun (football offence)
- хандбал noun (team sport)
Catalan
1 entries- handbol noun (team sport)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 手球 noun (team sport)
Czech
1 entries- házená noun (team sport)
Danish
2 entries- håndbold noun (team sport)
- håndbold noun (ball in team sport)
Dutch
4 entries- handbal noun (team sport)
- handbal noun (ball in team sport)
- hands noun (football offence)
- handsbal noun (football offence)
Esperanto
3 entries- handbalo noun (team sport)
- manbalo noun (team sport)
- manpilkado noun (team sport)
Faroese
1 entries- handbóltur noun (team sport)
Finnish
4 entries- käsi noun (football offence)
- käsikosketus noun (football offence)
- käsipallo noun (team sport)
- käsipallo noun (ball in team sport)
French
4 entries- balle noun (ball in team sport)
- balle noun (American: ball)
- balle de handball américain noun (American: ball)
- ballon noun (ball in team sport)
Galician
1 entries- balonmán noun (team sport)
Georgian
1 entries- ხელბურთი noun (team sport)
German
4 entries- Hand noun (football offence)
- Handball noun (team sport)
- Handball noun (ball in team sport)
- Handspiel noun (football offence)
Greek
3 entries- χάντμπολ noun (team sport)
- χέρι noun (football offence)
- χειροσφαίριση noun (team sport)
Greenlandic
1 entries- håndboldi noun (team sport)
Hindi
1 entries- हेन्डबोल noun (team sport)
Hungarian
3 entries- kezezés noun (football offence)
- kézilabda noun (team sport)
- kézilabda noun (ball in team sport)
Icelandic
3 entries- handbolti noun (team sport)
- handbolti noun (ball in team sport)
- handknattleikur noun (team sport)
Irish
2 entries- liathróid láimhe noun (team sport)
- láimhseáil noun (football offence)
Italian
1 entries- pallamano noun (team sport)
Japanese
4 entries- ハンド noun (football offence)
- ハンドボール noun (team sport)
- ハンドボール noun (ball in team sport)
- ハンドリング noun (football offence)
Kazakh
1 entries- қол добы noun (team sport)
Korean
2 entries- 송구 noun (team sport)
- 핸드볼 noun (team sport)
Latvian
2 entries- handbols noun (team sport)
- rokasbumba noun (team sport)
Lithuanian
1 entries- rankinis noun (team sport)
Macedonian
2 entries- ракоме́тна топка noun (ball in team sport)
- ракомет noun (team sport)
Maltese
1 entries- ħendbol noun (team sport)
Mingrelian
1 entries- ხებურთი noun (team sport)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- handball noun (team sport)
- handball noun (ball in team sport)
- håndball noun (team sport)
- håndball noun (ball in team sport)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- handball noun (team sport)
- handball noun (ball in team sport)
Polish
3 entries- piłka ręczna noun (team sport)
- ręka noun (football offence)
- szczypiorniak noun (team sport)
Portuguese
4 entries- andebol noun (team sport)
- bola de andebol noun (ball in team sport)
- bola de handebol noun (ball in team sport)
- handebol noun (team sport)
Romanian
2 entries- handbal noun (team sport)
- henț noun (football offence)
Russian
2 entries- гандбо́л noun (team sport)
- ручно́й мяч noun (team sport)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- igranje rukom noun (football offence)
- rukomet noun (team sport)
- rukometna lopta noun (ball in team sport)
- рукомет noun (team sport)
Slovak
1 entries- hádzaná noun (team sport)
Slovene
2 entries- rokomet noun (team sport)
- rokometna žoga noun (ball in team sport)
Spanish
2 entries- balonmano noun (team sport)
- handball noun (team sport)
Swahili
2 entries- mpira noun (team sport)
- mpira wa mkono noun (team sport)
Swedish
3 entries- handboll noun (team sport)
- handboll noun (ball in team sport)
- hands noun (football offence)
Turkish
4 entries- el topu noun (team sport)
- hentbol noun (team sport)
- hentbol topu noun (ball in team sport)
- solungaç noun (football offence)
Ukrainian
3 entries- гандбо́л noun (team sport)
- жа́бри noun (football offence)
- зя́бра noun (football offence)
Vietnamese
3 entries- banh để liệng noun (team sport)
- bóng ném noun (team sport)
- lỗi chạm tay noun (football offence)
Welsh
3 entries- llawiad noun (football offence)
- pêl law noun (ball in team sport)
- pêl-law noun (team sport)
Zazaki
1 entries- helpeze noun (football offence)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
He is good at handball.
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We watched Tom and Mary playing handball.
Source: tatoeba (1027688)
I like handball; as for my friend, he prefers volleyball.
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