Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gymnasium game, played with a white leather ball, consisting in keeping the ball in motion over a high net from one side to the other.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
volleyball .
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Examples
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Africa's Olympic volley-ball competitor Leigh-Ann Naidoo has become
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All manner of swots, divots, hicks and junkies passed through that celebrated late-evening residency, contributing to the cocktail of verse, vibes and verbal volley-ball, but the all-important farty noises were down to one bloke.
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He was a little careless, pulling the pin out of his trousers bag on the fringe of a crowd round a volley-ball game instead of in among them.
THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951
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Even though a gymnasium is not elaborately equipped, use can be made of such games as hand-ball, volley-ball and other available games.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907
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There was free food, massages, volley-ball courts, and, if you were an engineer, you got one day in every five to just "be creative".
Evening Standard - Home Philip Delves Broughton 2011
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There is a popular volley-ball court in the dust of Kamp Holland, not far from a memorial to the 21 Dutch soldiers who have been killed in the Afghanistan campaign.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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There is a popular volley-ball court in the dust of Kamp Holland, not far from a memorial to the 21 Dutch soldiers who have been killed in the Afghanistan campaign.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Daily gatherings on the volley-ball court are helping to renew a sense of community by involving villagers old and young, and men and women from all castes and economic levels.
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There is a popular volley-ball court in the dust of Kamp Holland, not far from a memorial to the 21 Dutch soldiers who have been killed in the Afghanistan campaign.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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There is a popular volley-ball court in the dust of Kamp Holland, not far from a memorial to the 21 Dutch soldiers who have been killed in the Afghanistan campaign.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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