OLD MOD TERMS

• • Attack Hit - an action of the player who directs the ball towards the opponent's court.
• Attack- any method used to send the ball over the net into the opponent's court from above the net level.
• • Antennae - poles made of flexible rod made of fiberglass, attached at sides of the net which delimits the crossing space.
• Attack block - an attempt to intercept the ball before it crosses over the net.
• Attack line - the line parallel to the net, 3 meters away from the net.
• Attack zone (front zone) - the area in the court marked by the center line and the attack line.
• Back zone - the area between the attack line and the end line.
• Ball handling - execution of any passing fundamentals.
• Ball in play - the balll is in play from the instant it is contacted or is being hit by the server until the fault has been committed by a team and the official suspends the play for any reason.
• Ball Out - ball touching the antennae or the outside portion of the net; ball passing under the net; ball passing outside of the crossing space; ball touching any person outside of the playing court; ball touching the ground outside the boundaries of the court and ball touching the ceiling of a building in an indoor game.
• Back Row Spiker - a back row player who has attacked the ball from above the top of the net. The action is legal only if at the moment of the attack hit both feet leave the floor from behind the attack line.
• Center line - the line that divides the court into two equal parts, located directly under the net.
• Contacted ball - a ball in play that has been touched by a player
• Cover-to protect an area on defense.
• Crossing Space - the space on the vertical plane of the net limited by the upper part and on the sides of the net by the antennae and their imaginary extensions.
• Dead ball - a ball not in play following a point, side out or any decision temporarily suspending the play.
• Dig - a recovery of a hard driven ball over the net with one or two hands.
• Dink/ Tipping - an attack in which the ball is hit with relatively little force from the fingertips or wrist
• Double Hit - two hits by the same player separated by a time interval.
• Double Fault - when two opposing players commit foul simultaneously touching of the ball is common.
• Defensive player - any player of a team not in possession of the ball.
• Defensive team - the team not in possession of the ball.
• Dig Pass - an underhand pass using both arms together.
• Defaulted Game - when a team did not appear on or before the game on scheduled time.
• Dribbling - a player touching the ball more than one with any part of the body. 28. Foot fault- an illegal placement of the feet with respect to court lines.
• Free ball - a non-spiked return of the ball by any opponent that should be easily handled and turned into an offensive play.
• Formation - an arrangement or alignment of players either offensive or defensive.
• Held ball - a violation in which the ball visibly comes to rest on some part of the body.
• Hard block - an attempt on the part of the defensive team to block the ball forcibly back at their opponent's court.
• In bounds- a ball landing inside or touching the lines of the court.
• Illegal substitution - substitute entering the game without permission of the 2nd referee.
• Line ball - a ball which hits the line.
• Match - the best of two out of three or three out of five sets.
• Offensive player - any player of a team in possession of the ball.
• Offensive team - the team which has possession of the ball.
• Out of bounds - a ball is out of bounds when it touches any surface or object on the floor outside the court.
• Rally - the chain of events while the ball is in play. It begins with the service and ends when the ball is dead.
• Rotation Order - the clockwise movement of players on the court after a side-out has occurred and the opponent have lost the serve.
• Service - the means of putting the ball into play by the offensive team at the service area.
• Screen - an illegal action of one or more players used to conceal the series action by blocking the receivers' view of the server.