volleyball

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• volley-ball

Noun

volleyball (countable and uncountable; plural volleyballs)

1. (uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
2. (countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.

Translations

game

• Albanian: volejboll (sq) m
• Arabic: كرة اليد (ar) (kúrat al-yad) f
• Armenian: վոլեյբոլ (hy) (voleybol) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 籃球 (cmn), 排球 (cmn) (páiqiú)

• Czech: volejbal (cs) m, odbíjená (cs) f
• Dutch: volleybal n
• Esperanto: flugpilkado (eo)
• Finnish: lentopallo (fi)
• French: volley-ball (fr)
• German: Volleyball (de)
• Greek: πετοσφαίριση (petosférisi) f, βόλλεϋ or βόλεϊ (vólei) n
• Hindi: वॉलीबॉल (hi) (volībol)
• Hungarian: röplabda (hu)
• Icelandic: blak (is) n
• Indonesian: bola voli (id)
• Irish: eitpheil (ga) m
• Italian: pallavolo (it) f, palla a volo (it) f
• Japanese: バレーボール (ja) (barēbōru), 排球 (ja) (はいきゅう, haikyū)
• Korean: 배구 (ko) (baegu) (排球 (ko))
• Latvian: volejbols m

• Lithuanian: tinklinis (lt) m
• Macedonian: одбојка (mk) (ódbojka) f
• Malay: bola tampar (ms)
• Navajo: jooł nabízníkaadí
• Persian: والیبال (fa) (vâlibâl)
• Polish: siatkówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: voleibol (pt) m
• Romanian: volei (ro) m
• Russian: волейбол (ru) (volejból) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одбојка f

  Roman: odbojka f

• Spanish: voleibol (es) m
• Swahili: voliboli (sw)
• Swedish: volleyboll c
• Tagalog: volleyball (tl), balibol (tl)
• Thai: วอลเลย์บอล (th) (wonlâybon)
• Turkish: voleybol (tr)
• Ukrainian: волейбол (uk) (volejból) m , відбиванка (uk) (vidbývanka) f 
• Vietnamese: bóng chuyền (vi)
• Welsh: pêl-foli (cy)

ball used to play the game

• Czech: volejbalový míč m
• Dutch: volleybal m
• Esperanto: flugpilko (eo)
• Finnish: lentopallo (fi)
• Greek: πετόσφαιρα (petósfera) f
• Icelandic: blakbolti m
• Navajo: jooł

• Russian: волейбольный мяч (ru) (volejból’nyj mjač) m 
• Swahili: voliboli (sw)
• Swedish: volleyboll c
• Turkish: voleybol topu (tr)
• Ukrainian: волейбольний м’яч (uk) (volejból’nyj m”jač) m , м’яч до відбиванки (uk) (m”jač do vidbývanky) m 

Derived terms

• beach volleyball
• indoor volleyball
• rebound volleyball
• sitting volleyball
• volleyballer
• wallyball

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French

Noun

volleyball m (usually uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of volley-ball.

Derived terms

• volleyball de plage