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volleyball tournament

volleyball tournament

1 2.4
A sports event where several teams play volleyball to find a winner
  • noun
  • /ˈvɑːlɪˌbɔɪl ˈtʊrnəmənt/
translation icon : torneo de voleibol
  • The seeds held true on the first day of the 2012 Horizon League Volleyball Tournament as third-seeded Valparaiso and fourth-seeded Loyola both won in 3-0 sweeps of their opponents.
  • beach volleyball tournament

Examples

  • Participants in the survey were athletes who attended two high school volleyball tournaments in Saskatchewan in the fall of 1991.

    Academic text (1994)

  • There have also been many fundraising events such as bake sales, game night, and the volleyball tournament.

    Blog text (21)

  • Subjects were volleyball players on teams entered in a round-robin volleyball tournament where the amount of data collected would be significantly greater than during a dual-team volleyball match.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The third-seeded Riders downed fourth-seeded Washington 25-21, 25-20, and 25-16 in the title match of the South Dakota Class AA state volleyball tournament Saturday night.

    Blog text (27)

  • The annual Fort Bend volleyball tournament is scheduled to begin today with 16 matches at local high schools.

  • Several Houston-area teams qualified for the TAPPS State volleyball tournament held at Texas Christian University.

  • She had a great time watching the teams compete in the beach volleyball tournament last weekend.

Synonyms

tournament
vsvolleyball tournament
745 1.8

A sports event where teams or players play several games to decide the winner

is limited to one sport and its matches rather than general ones
championship
vsvolleyball tournament
617 2.5

A competition to find the best team or player in a sport

is a multi-match contest to find a winner not necessarily the official title
competition
vsvolleyball tournament
396 2.3

An event where people or teams compete to win

is specifically a multi-match series in one sport to decide an overall winner
tourney
vsvolleyball tournament
  • Informal
12 6.2

A sports competition where players or teams compete to win

is the general description rather than a name variant
athletic competition
vsvolleyball tournament
3 2.7

A contest where athletes compete in sports such as running or jumping

focuses on scheduled matches in one team sport rather than varied events
athletic contest
vsvolleyball tournament
1 2.5

A competition where people or teams compete in sports

is about organised matches in one team sport rather than general physical events

How Big

volleyball tournament
1 2.4
regional
29 3.3

Surface Forms

volleyball tournament singular
volleyball tournaments plural

Morphology

volleyball + tournament

The meaning is directly compositional: 'volleyball' names the sport and 'tournament' names a competitive event, so a 'volleyball tournament' is predictably a competition of volleyball matches. This noun+ noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Volleyball tournament comes from the simple image of many teams playing volleyball matches together in one organized event, a tournament. So it means a 'competition' to find the best team.