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Tomahawk: A defensive shot in beach volleyball made by putting the hands together and making contact with the volleyball overhead [5] Thunder: A spike or attack that requires a lot of force from the arm, and a very high jump. The ball is hit steeply downwards from the point of contact, and is very difficult to receive
A player making a forearm pass or bump. Also called reception, the pass is the attempt by a team to properly handle the opponent's serve or any form of attack. Proper handling includes not only preventing the ball from touching the court but also making it reach the position where the setter is standing quickly and precisely. [3]
Its main differences from regular volleyball are that the ball can be caught before passing on to a team-mate or over the net, and each pass or serve is a throw rather than a hit. While most other volleyball rules apply, variations on the numbers of players per team and the numbers of 'catches' per side are common, and players holding the ball ...
The Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF) is a women's professional indoor volleyball league in the United States. The league was announced on November 17, 2022, and began ...
The significant amount of volleyball landings subject the lower limb joints of players to high forces, which may cause acute or overuse injuries. [6] A review found 54 acute injuries , 30% of which were to the knee, 17% to the ankle, and 17% to the fingers in 178 professional beach volleyball players during a 7.5 week period. [ 6 ]
Cue stick, in billiard-type games; Cue bid, a type of bid in the card game contract bridge "Cue" (among other spellings), a spelled-out name for the letter Q in the English alphabet ".cue", used in the filename of cue sheets, descriptor files for specifying the layout of CD or DVD tracks; Commercially useful enzymes; CUE Bus (City. University.
Chelsea former player and top scorer Frank Lampard preparing to execute a volley. Motherwell player Brian McLean (in amber) volleys the ball in a match against St Mirren.. A volley is an air-borne strike in association football, where a player's foot meets and directs the ball in an angled direction before it has time to reach the ground.
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.