Speedball
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Speedball can mean:
Several team sports, including:
- Speed-ball, a racquet sport came from Egypt
- Speedball (American), a form of football invented in the United States in 1912;
- Speedball (paintball), one style of paintball, often played in tournaments.
- A form of volleyball played in India and several other countries where the indians have migrated. It has very different rules of play for example you can't spike the ball.
Uses of the word outside sports:
- Speedball (drug), a mix of heroin and cocaine;
- Speedball (video game), a popular video game series by Bitmap Brothers;
- A road-rally run across Europe in early July 2005 and August 2006, in the style of the Cannonball and Gumball 3000 [1]
- Speedball (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero.
- Speedball (band), a hard rock band.
- "Speedball", a song by John Zorn from the 1989 album Naked City
- Speed bag, a kind of punching bag