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This article is ready the indoor team exercise. For the seaside group activity, see Beach volleyball. For one of a kind
uses, see Volleyball (disambiguation).

Volleyball is a set activity in which corporations of six gamers are separated through a internet. Each institution tries to
attain factors through the use of grounding a ball on the alternative institution's court docket beneath organized
pointers.[1] It has been part of the respectable software of the Summer Olympic Games considering that Tokyo 1964.
Beach volleyball modified into introduced to the programme on the Atlanta 1996. The tailored model of volleyball on
the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball.

The entire set of policies is huge,[2] however play essentially proceeds as follows: a participant on one of the agencies
begins offevolved a 'rally' via manner of serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm),
from within the lower back of the all over again boundary line of the court docket, over the internet, and into the
receiving team's courtroom.[3] The receiving group need to now not permit the ball be grounded internal their court
docket. The team may additionally contact the ball up to a few times to go returned the ball to the possibility thing of
the courtroom docket docket, however man or woman gamers may not contact the ball instances consecutively.[3]
Typically, the primary touches are used to set up for an assault. An assault is an try to direct the ball lower again over
the net in this type of way that the institution receiving the ball isn't capable of pass the ball and keep the rally, as a end
result, dropping the issue. The team that wins the rally is furnished a detail and serves the ball to start the following
rally. A few of the maximum common faults consist of:

• inflicting the ball to touch the ground or ground out of doors the opponents' court docket or with out first
passing over the internet;

• catching and throwing the ball;

• double hit: consecutive contacts with the ball made with the aid of way of the same participant;

• four consecutive contacts with the ball made thru the same team;

• net foul: touching the net all through play;

• foot fault: the foot crosses over the boundary line on the same time as serving or beneath the internet at the
same time as a the front row player is attempting to preserve the ball in play.

The ball is commonly finished with the palms or fingers, however game enthusiasts can legally strike or push (brief
contact) the ball with any part of the body.

A kind of normal techniques have evolved in volleyball, which include spiking and blocking off (due to the reality these
performs are made above the top of the net, the vertical soar is an athletic potential emphasised in the game) further to
passing, placing, and specialised participant positions and offensive and defensive structures.[4]