Meaning & use
handballer
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UK/ˈhændbɔːlə/
US/ˈhændbɔːlər/
Meaning
nouncountable
A person who plays handball, either the team sport or the wall game.
Grammar: Countable: you can say a handballer or two handballers.
Patterns
- a professional handballer
- a handballer for a team
My cousin is a handballer and trains every morning.
The handballer threw the ball into the goal.
She became a professional handballer after college.
Word forms
| plural | handballers |
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Common combinations
- professional handballer
- He is a professional handballer in Europe.
- handballer for a team
- She is a handballer for the national team.
- handballer's uniform
- The handballer's uniform was blue and white.
Synonyms and how they differ
- handball player
- Handball player is the more common and neutral term; handballer is shorter and often used in sports news.
Word family
- handball noun
- The sport or game played with a ball and the hands.
- handball verb
- To play handball, or in soccer, to touch the ball with the hand illegally.
Commonly confused: handballer or handball?
handballer vs handball
Handball is the game; a handballer is the person who plays it.
Practice
What does 'handballer' mean?
Choose one answer.
The suffix -er often means 'a person who does something', so a handballer is a person who plays handball. The other options refer to the ball, the court, or the event.
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