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Volleyball Vocabulary - Statistics
General Stats
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This quiz has been taken 694 times
490 since last reset
- The average score is 10 of 28
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A serve that is not returned, resulting in a point. | ace | 59%
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| A type of dig that occurs when a player extends his or her hand flat on the floor, and lets the ball bounce off the back of his or her hand. | pancake | 55%
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| A serve which does not spin or rotate and therefore moves in an erratic path. | floater | 54%
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| A defensive play where a player deflects a spiked ball back into the opponent’s court by jumping in front of the ball with their hands above the net. | block | 52%
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| Successive (and illegal) hits or contacts by the same player. | double hit | 52%
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| A type of serve executed by tossing the ball into the air, jumping, and hitting the ball when it is in its downward motion. | jump serve | 50%
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| The act of stepping over the line while serving, which results in a point for the opposing team. | footfault | 49%
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| An unsuccessful serve resulting from the ball landing out of bounds or failing to clear the net, or from a foot fault by the server. | service error | 46%
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| The area from the endline to the attack line. | backcourt | 45%
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| An attack on the ball by an offensive player executed with an overhead, one-armed motion. | spike | 45%
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| To pass or set the ball to a player who attacks the ball for a point. | assist | 43%
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| A soft, off-speed attack executed with the fingertips. | tip | 41%
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| To pass a spiked or rapidly hit ball. | dig | 40%
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| A ball that is spiked right down the opposing sideline. | line shot | 39%
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| A spike from the hitter’s strong side that travels at a sharp angle across the net. | cut shot | 38%
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| Simultaneous attempts by two opposing players to play a ball directly above the net. | joust | 34%
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| A wild and unplayable pass. | shank | 33%
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| A legal, point-scoring play arising from a from a spike attack, tip or dump. | kill | 32%
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| A ball that falls on the floor and is surrounded by two or more players. | campfire | 27%
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| To return the ball back over the net on the second contact. | dump | 23%
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| A serve that a player should have been able to return, but that results in an ace (and only in the case of an ace). | reception error | 23%
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| A situation that occurs when the receiving team successfully puts the ball away against the serving team, or when the serving team commits an unforced error, and the receiving team thus gains the right to serve. | side out | 23%
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| Any ball spiked with less than maximum force, but with spin. | off-speed hit | 18%
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| An offensive play during which a hitter makes contact underneath the ball and moves their arm upwards. | roll shot | 17%
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| An attempted hit that only results in the hitter slightly grazing the ball with their middle and ring fingers. | whiff | 16%
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| A serve in which the ball hits the net on the side of the court served on, but still makes it over the net and onto the opposing side's floor, resulting in a point. | let | 14%
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| A cross-court hit traveling away from the spiker to the farthest point of the court. | power alley | 8%
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| An offensive play in which a set ball, rather than being spiked hard, is directed to an open area of the court. | shot | 3%
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