goalballn.
/ˈɡəʊlˌbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊlˌbɔl/, /ˈɡoʊlˌbɑl/ Sport.
1. U.S. Usually in form goal ball. Any of various related games played with a ball and (usually) a bat, in which a player strikes the ball with the bat or the hand and attempts to run to one or more bases to score points; = baseball n. 1a. Now historical.
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1834 R. Carver Bk. of Sports iii. 37 This game is known under a variety of names. It is sometimes called ‘round ball’, but I believe that ‘base’, or ‘goal ball’ are the names generally adopted in our country.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 33 In America the game became known as base (an American soldier wrote of 'playing at base' at Valley Forge in 1778), stick ball (1823), goal ball and round ball (1830s).
2015 S. Browning & J. Watterson Montana Baseball Hist. i. 18 The game went by any number of different rules and names, including old cat, one cat.., goal ball, town ball,..before eventually becoming known as base ball and finally baseball.
2. A team sport developed for blind or visually impaired players, in which a ball containing bells which make a sound when in motion is thrown at a goal which spans the width of the opposing team's end of the court. Later also occasionally: the ball used in this game.The game was originally devised in 1946, as an exercise to assist the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans, and was first included in the Paralympic Games in 1980, becoming the first Paralympic sport to have been designed exclusively for disabled players.
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tether-ball1900
paddleball1930
goalball1947
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1947 C. E. Buell Sports for Blind 97 Goal Ball... Two goal lines are marked about forty yards apart... The throwing team scores a point each time the ball, on the fly, hits the ground in back of the opponents' goal line.
1978 Winnipeg Free Press 31 Aug. 54/3 Choptain had a world record score..in the pentathlon, as well as a gold medal in goalball.
1990 Times 21 June 43/2 They score by rolling the goalball into the other team's net.
2012 Independent 31 Aug. 5/1 When you play goalball, silence is golden.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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