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sitzball

sitzball noun: a sport somewhat similar to volleyball but played sitting down (and thus suitable for people with disabilities or amputations that diminish their capacity to stand).

Noun

sitzball (uncountable)

  1. A sport somewhat similar to volleyball but played sitting down (and thus suitable for people with disabilities or amputations that diminish their capacity to stand).
    • The sitting variant of volleyball was developed initially in the Netherlands, adapted from a German sport played on the floor: sitzball, also called fistball (De Haan, 1986). To create a more dynamic game, in the 1950s, under the auspice of the society of Dutch Military War Victims, sitzball and...2016, Geoffery Z. Kohe, Derek M. Peters, High Performance Disability Sport Coaching, →ISBN

Origin of sitzball

From German Sitzball.

Questions about sitzball

What does sitzball mean?
Sitzball means a sport somewhat similar to volleyball but played sitting down (and thus suitable for people with disabilities or amputations that diminish their capacity to stand).
What part of speech is sitzball?
Sitzball is a noun.

Words near sitzball in the dictionary

  1. Sitwellism
  2. sitz
  3. sitz bath
  4. sitz baths
  5. Sitz im Leben
  6. sitzball
  7. sitzbath
  8. sitzbaths
  9. sitzed
  10. sitzes
  11. Sitzeses

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