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basketball after it took an etiquette class and banned dribbling out of spite.
means A seven-a-side ball sport, derived from basketball and especially popular in Commonwealth countries, in which players cannot run with the ball or dribble it and must pass or shoot to score through a high, backboard-less hoop.
from A straightforward compound of 'net' and 'ball' — the net being the hoop you aim for. The sport itself grew out of basketball, which had been invented in the United States in the 1890s; an early version reached England soon after, and as it spread through women's schools and across the British Empire it acquired its own rules and the plain descriptive name we still use.
- no dribble
- You catch, you stop, you pass within seconds
- frozen feet
- Land with the ball and one foot stays planted
- seven roles
- Bibs dictate exactly where each player may roam
- net origins
- Invented in 1890s England from misread basketball rules
- global game
- Played competitively in over 80 countries
fast5 netball — high-speed 5-a-side format debuted internationally in 2017
commonwealth games netball — medal sport at every commonwealth games since 1998
super netball — professional australian netball league founded in 2017
netball world cup — biennial championship won 16 times by new zealand and jamaica combined