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Welsh handball, the Glossary

Index Welsh handball

Welsh handball (Pêl-law) is one of the ancient native sports of Wales.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 54 relations: American handball, Anglicanism, Archery, Bard, Bargoed, Basque pelota, Bear-baiting, Bookkeeping, Caerphilly, Cockfight, Culture, Culture of Wales, Cywydd, Denbighshire, Edwardian era, Egyptian hieroglyphs, English longbow, Eton fives, Gaelic handball, Gelligaer, Great Depression, Guto'r Glyn, Jersey Marine, Jousting, Kingdom of England, Laugharne, Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, Llandaff, Llantrisant, Llanvair Discoed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Medieval Welsh literature, Mesoamerican ballgame, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Nelson, Caerphilly, Nennius, New Tredegar, Osiris, Pontypridd, Post–World War I recession, Pre-Columbian era, Racquetball, Raglan Castle, Rugby union, South America, Spaldeen, Squash (sport), Swansea, The Crown, Tintern Abbey, ... Expand index (4 more) »

  2. Sport in Wales
  3. Sports originating in Wales
  4. Wall and ball games

American handball

American handball, known as handball in the United States and sometimes referred to as wallball, is a sport in which players use their hands to hit a small, rubber ball against a wall such that their opponent(s) cannot do the same without the ball touching the ground twice or hitting out-of-bounds. Welsh handball and American handball are sports rules and regulations and wall and ball games.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

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Bard

In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

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Bargoed

Bargoed (Bargod) is a town and community in the Rhymney Valley, Wales, one of the South Wales Valleys.

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Basque pelota

Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. Welsh handball and basque pelota are wall and ball games.

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Bear-baiting

Bear-baiting is a blood sport in which a chained bear and one or more dogs are forced to fight one another.

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Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business and other organizations.

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Caerphilly

Caerphilly (Caerffili) is a town and community in Wales.

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Cockfight

Cockfighting is a blood sport involving domesticated roosters as the combatants.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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Culture of Wales

The culture of Wales is distinct, with its own language, customs, festivals, music, art, mythology, history, and politics. Wales is primarily represented by the symbol of the red Welsh Dragon, but other national emblems include the leek and the daffodil.

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Cywydd

The cywydd (plural cywyddau) is one of the most important metrical forms in traditional Welsh poetry (cerdd dafod).

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Denbighshire

Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych) is a county in the north-east of Wales.

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Edwardian era

In the United Kingdom, the Edwardian era was a period in the early 20th century, that spanned the reign of King Edward VII from 1901 to 1910.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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English longbow

The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of bow, about long.

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Eton fives

Eton fives, a derivative of the British game of fives, is a handball game, similar to Rugby fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. Welsh handball and Eton fives are ball games.

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Gaelic handball

Gaelic handball (known in Ireland simply as handball; liathróid láimhe) is a sport where players hit a ball with a hand or fist against a wall in such a way as to make a shot the opposition cannot return, and that may be played with two (singles) or four players (doubles). Welsh handball and Gaelic handball are wall and ball games.

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Gelligaer

Gelligaer (Gelli-gaer) is a community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales, in the Rhymney River valley.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Guto'r Glyn

Guto'r Glyn (c. 1412 – c. 1493) was a Welsh language poet and soldier of the era of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr ("Poets of the Nobility") or Cywyddwyr ("cywydd-men"), the itinerant professional poets of the later Middle Ages.

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Jersey Marine

Jersey Marine is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, UK located about east of Swansea.

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Jousting

Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.

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Laugharne

Laugharne (Talacharn) is a town on the south coast of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tâf.

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Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542

The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 (Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542) or the Acts of Union (Y Deddfau Uno), were Acts of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII of England, causing Wales to be incorporated into the realm of the Kingdom of England.

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Llandaff

Llandaff (Llandaf; from llan 'church' and Taf) is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

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Llantrisant

Llantrisant ("Parish of the Three Saints") is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the River Ely and the Afon Clun.

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Llanvair Discoed

Llanvair Discoed (Llanfair Is Coed) is a small village in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, 6 miles west of Chepstow and 10 miles east of Newport.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Medieval Welsh literature

Medieval Welsh literature is the literature written in the Welsh language during the Middle Ages.

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Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame (ōllamalīztli,, pitz) was a sport with ritual associations played since at least 1650 BC by the pre-Columbian people of Ancient Mesoamerica. Welsh handball and Mesoamerican ballgame are ball games.

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Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf

Mountain Ash (Aberpennar) is a town and former community in the Cynon Valley, within the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, with a population of 11,230 at the 2011 Census, estimated in 2019 at 11,339.

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Nelson, Caerphilly

Nelson (sometimes Ffos y Gerddinen) is a village and community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales.

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Nennius

Nennius – or Nemnius or Nemnivus – was a Welsh monk of the 9th century.

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New Tredegar

New Tredegar (Tredegar Newydd) is a former mining town and community in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly county borough, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Pontypridd

Pontypridd (colloquially: Ponty) is a town and a community in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, approximately 10 miles north west of Cardiff city centre.

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Post–World War I recession

The post–World War I recession was an economic recession that hit much of the world in the aftermath of World War I. In many nations, especially in North America, economic growth continued and even accelerated during World War I as nations mobilized their economies to fight the war in Europe.

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Pre-Columbian era

In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.

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Racquetball

Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Welsh handball and Racquetball are wall and ball games.

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Raglan Castle

Raglan Castle (Castell Rhaglan) is a late medieval castle located just north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Welsh handball and rugby union are ball games.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spaldeen

A Spalding Hi-Bounce Ball, often called a Spaldeen or a Pensie Pinkie, is a rubber ball, described as a tennis ball core without the felt. Welsh handball and Spaldeen are ball games.

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Squash (sport)

Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket-and-ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball. Welsh handball and squash (sport) are ball games and wall and ball games.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales.

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The Crown

The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).

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Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey (Abaty Tyndyrn) was founded on 9 May 1131 by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow.

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Tudor period

In England and Wales, the Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603, including the Elizabethan era during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Ystrad

Ystrad (also known as Ystrad Rhondda or Ystrad-Rhondda) is a village and community (and electoral ward) in the Rhondda Fawr valley, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.

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See also

Sport in Wales

Sports originating in Wales

Wall and ball games

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_handball

Also known as Pêl-law.

, Tudor period, Wales, World War I, Ystrad.