Image: Wikimedia Commons

volleyball

Team sport

Instance of: type of sport
, hobby
Subclass of: ball game
, team sport
Founded: 1947

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball.

Overview

All data

144 statements · 10% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

OpenStreetMap tag: sport=volleyball
Minimum number of players: 12
Maximum number of players: 12
Unicode character: 🏐
Permanent duplicated item: Q27136411
Authority: Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
Uses: volleyball
volleyball court
volleyball rules
Practiced by: volleyball player
volleyball coach
volleyball team
Different from: Volleyball criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Volleyball
Discovered by: William G. Morgan
Country of origin: United States
1
Sources
1.cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16122coll3/id/389/
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Discovered: 1895
Model item: volleyball team applies to use with property: sport
Has characteristic: demonstration sport(1924)
Olympic sport(since 1964)

On other databases

105 identifiers linking volleyball across the web's reference databases

Data quality

144

statements

10%

externally sourced

Source last edited October 17, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q1734

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). volleyball (Q1734). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/volleyball-Q1734