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- noun uncountable A
non-contact unisex team sport originating fromHolland , similar tonetball , where players attempt to throw a ball into abasket atop a pole. - noun countable The
ball used in the sport of korfball.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Take "korfball," a co-ed sport dreamed up by a Dutchman that combines elements of netball and soccer but looks something like early basketball.
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Or why have there not been any movements afoot to change the rules to have every football team consist of six men and five women (or vice versa) in effect making them into mixed-gender teams like the Dutch game of "korfball", a kind of basketball played by three men and two women on the same team in which, however, only men can guard men and women can play against women thus in essence perpetuating the gender apartheid within this game itself?
Andrei Markovits: The Last Legitimate Bastion of "Separate but Equal" Andrei Markovits 2010
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Maybe korfball would have become more popular than netball.
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My colleague is now at korfball camp, teaching kids how to play, however I was not allowed to attend sadly.
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The nearest game happened to be in Tilburg, so after a 30 minute train ride and a 40 minute walk (complete with some New York Pizza slices), we were standing next to a makeshift korfball field, i.e., some rope pinned to the ground for the boundaries and some moveable goalposts stuck in the ground in the right spot (I guess).
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There are world rankings for badminton, curling and korfball.
NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY 2011
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There are world rankings for badminton, curling and korfball.
NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY 2011
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I planned to ride the Freecross to my korfball training session , but the rain was so torrential it was called off.
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YOUNGSTERS have been given a taster of what it is like to play korfball.
unknown title 2009
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Baseball is not a national pastime among the Dutch, who prefer soccer and the mixed-gender Euro wackiness of korfball.
Tyee - Home 2009
she commented on the word korfball
A co-ed ball game of Dutch origin (see Wikipedia).
August 6, 2008
yarb commented on the word korfball
It sound like horking up a hairball. But then it is Dutch.
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word korfball
Hehe!
August 7, 2008
dontcry commented on the word korfball
*korf*
I like it!
August 7, 2008