Baseball vs. Handball — What's the Difference?

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat.

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.

A ball game played between two teams of nine on a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly as a warm-weather sport in the US and Canada

A game similar to fives, in which the ball is hit with the hand in a walled court.

A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score.

Touching of the ball with the hand or arm, constituting a foul

The ball that is used in this game.

A game that is played, often on a four-walled court, by two or more players who alternately hit a small rubber ball against the front wall with the hand, with play stopping if the ball bounces twice on the floor or does not reach the front wall.

A game of darts in which the players attempt to score points by throwing the darts at a target laid out in the form of a baseball diamond.

The ball used in this game.

A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.

Team handball.

The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

Often hand ball A violation of the rules in soccer in which a player other than the goalie inside the penalty area carries, strikes, or propels the ball with the hand or arm. A hand ball is usually called when the hand or arm is away from the body and touches the ball.

A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

(uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.

A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds (four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

(countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.

The ball used in this game.

The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.

A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run;

A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.

A ball used in playing baseball

The small rubber ball used in this sport.

An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on a improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.

To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.

(soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.

(Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

To insert a hand into someone's anus.

A small ball, usually made of rubber, thrown or struck with the hand in various games.

A game played with such a ball, as by players striking it to and fro between them with the hands, or, when played in a walled court or against a single wall, striking it in turns against a wall, until one side or the other fails to return the ball.

A small rubber ball used in the game of handball

A game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands