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Handicapped or handicap may refer to:

In sports and games

• Handicapping, various methods of levelling the outcome in a competitive sport or game:
  • Handicap race (disambiguation)
  • Handicap (chess)
  • Handicap (golf)
  • Handicap (go)
  • Handicap (sailing)
  • Handicap (shogi)
• Handicapping, various methods of outcome prediction or levelling outcome predictions:
  • Asian handicap, bookmakers' technique to level odds
  • Political handicapping, the news process of trying to predict election outcomes, especially rather than focusing on the political issues
• " The Handicapped", short story by Larry Niven originally published in 1967 as "Handicap"

Human condition

• Disability, an impairment that substantially affects a person's life activities, and may be present at birth or arise later in life
• Self-handicapping, a psychological method for preserving self-esteem

Biology

• Handicap principle, an evolutionary theory (also known as handicap theory)

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