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A beach volleyball match at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Beach volleyball is played on a rectangular sand court. The court is 16 m (52.5 ft) long and 8 m (26.2 ft) wide, surrounded by a clear space, which is at least 3 m (9.8 ft) wide on all sides. The minimum height clearance for beach volleyball courts is 7 m (23.0 ft).
Beachball volleyball: A game of indoor volleyball played with a beach ball instead of a volleyball. Biribol: an aquatic variant, played in shallow swimming pools. The name comes from the Brazilian city where it was invented, Birigui. It is similar to water volleyball.
Sachiko (サチコ, さちこ) is a feminine Japanese given name that means "child of bliss." It also means "happiness" when it is written with the kanji characters 幸子. One common short form of the name is Sachi.
Snow volleyball is a variant of beach volleyball that is played on snow. The rules are similar to the beach game, [ 1 ] with the main differences being the scoring system (best of 3 sets played to 15 points) and the number of players (three starters and one substitute).
with the given name Miwa. Miwa (singer) (born 1990), a musician who sung the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi; Miwa Asao (美和, born 1986), a beach volleyball player; Miwa Fukuhara (美和, born 1944), a figure skater; Miwa Kuribayashi (栗林 未和, born 1998), Japanese women's basketball player
Word/name: Japanese: Region of origin: ... is a masculine Japanese given name. The meanings of these names depend on the ... Japanese beach volleyball player; Eiko ...
Sepak takraw, or Sepaktakraw, [1] also called buka ball, kick volleyball or foot volleyball, is a team sport. It is played with a ball made of rattan or plastic between two teams of two to four players on a court resembling a badminton court.
William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]