Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game similar to volleyball played on a four-walled court with a ball the same size as but harder than a volleyball that is allowed to bounce once off the ceiling or once off the walls before being returned over the net.
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- noun A
fast -paced sport , sometimes calledrebound volleyball , similar tovolleyball .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bush's latest enthusiasm is a game called wallyball-volleyball played on a racquetball court.
Bush's Heart Scare 2008
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(CN) - An Illinois man who was hurt while playing "wallyball" can collect workers 'compensation benefits because he was on the job, a state appeals court ruled.
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Case in point: When there was low attendance for a class on wallyball—a modified version of volleyball played on a racquetball court— she cut it immediately, but stuck with the more popular Zumba classes, a Latin-flavored dance-fitness programs.
Perks With a Payoff Brad Reagan 2011
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Letting loose in a game of wallyball, a game akin to volleyball played with a net on a racquetball court, helps build teamwork at Aquascape, the garden-supply company.
Let the Boss Really See You Sweat Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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Perks include on-campus wallyball courts, indoor soccer fields, air hockey, Ping-Pong, billiards, yoga and aerobics classes, company pools and hot tubs, and Native American themed nap rooms so that employees can sleep sleep! at work.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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Then some of us started a killer game of wallyball, which, for the uninformed, is volleyball play on a court with walls.
Broken on the Back Row SANDI PATTY 2005
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Then some of us started a killer game of wallyball, which, for the uninformed, is volleyball play on a court with walls.
Broken on the Back Row SANDI PATTY 2005
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They've started up wallyball on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2002
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I used to have a very physical job and still made time in my "leisure" to body-build, coach soccer for my daughters and go to weekly games, play racquetball or wallyball once or twice a week, work on the yard or house, and take my wife out on a date once a week.
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I used to have a very physical job and still made time in my "leisure" to body-build, coach soccer for my daughters and go to weekly games, play racquetball or wallyball once or twice a week, work on the yard or house, and take my wife out on a date once a week.
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