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# volleyball

«volleyball» in Mova's school dictionary: **A team game in which two teams hit a ball with their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (uncountable for the game; a volleyball, volleyballs for the ball)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A team game in which two teams hit a ball with their hands over a high net, trying to make it land on the other side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#m1)

2) The ball used in this game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Played in PE and on beaches. Each team has 6 players on the court (2 in beach volleyball). Comes up in maths about teams, scores and sets. Phrases: play volleyball, beach volleyball, volleyball net, volleyball court.

### examples

- We played volleyball in PE today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#x1)
- A volleyball team has six players on the court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#x2)
- Beach volleyball is played in pairs on sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#x3)
- She served the volleyball over the net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#x4)
- Our volleyball team won 25 to 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#x5)
- How many players are on court if both volleyball teams are playing? Twelve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/#x6)

### note

One word: volleyball. "Play volleyball" (no "the"). The game is uncountable; the ball is countable. In maths: 2 teams of 6 means 12 players on court.

### In the corpora

- [A volleyball team has 6 players on the court.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/233-making-teams/0/)
- [27 children: 27 ÷ 6 is 4 with 3 left over, so 4 full volleyball teams, and 3 children keep score.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/233-making-teams/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «volleyball» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/volleyball/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.