goalball

English

Goalball players defending the goal

Etymology

From goal +‎ ball.

Noun

goalball (countable and uncountable, plural goalballs)

1. (disability, sports) A ball game, designed for the blind, in which teams of three players attempt to throw a ball with bells embedded in it into the opposing goal.
   • 2008 June 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Athletes Disabled by Wars Lead Iraqi Team in World Games”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And a blind athlete, Qasim Muttar, who was a promising player of goalball — soccer played with a ball that contains bells — died after being run over by an American convoy while crossing a street.

2. (countable) The ball used in the sport

Translations

ball game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盲人門球／盲人门球 (mángrén ménqiú)

• Danish: goalball
• Finnish: maalipallo (fi)
• French: goalball (fr) m
• Hungarian: csörgőlabda
• Japanese: ゴールボール (gōrubōru)
• Korean: 골볼 (golbol)
• Spanish: golbol m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English goalball.

Noun

goalball m (uncountable)

1. (sports) goalball, a parasport for the blind

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English goalball.

Noun

goalball m (uncountable)

1. goalball