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Overview of Volleyball Rules and Play

Volleyball is a team sport played by two teams separated by a net. The objective is to ground the ball on the opponent's court under organized rules. Teams consist of six players and must return the ball to the other side without allowing it to hit the ground. Points are scored when the opposing team is unable to return the ball. Some common faults include hitting the ball out of bounds, catching the ball, or double hits. The ball is typically played using hands or arms, and specialized techniques like spiking and blocking have developed.

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Overview of Volleyball Rules and Play

Volleyball is a team sport played by two teams separated by a net. The objective is to ground the ball on the opponent's court under organized rules. Teams consist of six players and must return the ball to the other side without allowing it to hit the ground. Points are scored when the opposing team is unable to return the ball. Some common faults include hitting the ball out of bounds, catching the ball, or double hits. The ball is typically played using hands or arms, and specialized techniques like spiking and blocking have developed.

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This article is set the indoor crew recreation. For the seaside crew recreation, see Beach volleyball. For different uses,
see Volleyball (disambiguation).

Volleyball is a crew game in which two groups of six players are separated via a net. Each crew tries to score factors by
using grounding a ball on the opposite group's courtroom below organized guidelines.[1] It has been part of the
respectable software of the Summer Olympic Games on account that Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball changed into added
to the programme on the Atlanta 1996. The tailored model of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting
volleyball.

The entire set of policies is large,[2] however play basically proceeds as follows: a player on one of the groups begins a
'rally' by way of serving the ball (tossing or freeing it after which hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the again
boundary line of the courtroom, over the net, and into the receiving crew's court.[3] The receiving group have to no
longer let the ball be grounded inside their courtroom. The team may also touch the ball up to a few instances to go
back the ball to the alternative aspect of the court docket, but man or woman players may not contact the ball two
times consecutively.[3] Typically, the primary two touches are used to installation for an attack. An assault is an try and
direct the ball lower back over the net in any such manner that the group receiving the ball is unable to bypass the ball
and hold the rally, accordingly, losing the point. The crew that wins the rally is provided a factor and serves the ball to
start the next rally. A few of the maximum not unusual faults consist of:

• causing the ball to touch the ground or ground outdoor the opponents' courtroom or with out first passing over
the net;

• catching and throwing the ball;

• double hit: consecutive contacts with the ball made by means of the same player;

• 4 consecutive contacts with the ball made by the equal crew;

• internet foul: touching the net for the duration of play;

• foot fault: the foot crosses over the boundary line whilst serving or underneath the net while a the front row
participant is trying to preserve the ball in play.

The ball is normally performed with the fingers or palms, but gamers can legally strike or push (quick touch) the ball with
any a part of the body.

A variety of regular techniques have developed in volleyball, such as spiking and blocking off (due to the fact these
performs are made above the pinnacle of the internet, the vertical jump is an athletic skill emphasized in the sport) as
well as passing, placing, and specialised participant positions and offensive and defensive systems.[4]

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