\Hal"ma\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to leap.] (Greek
Antiq.)
The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most
important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.

\Hal"ma\, n.
A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons
with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from
different corners and striving to place each his own set of
men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by
moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress.