How do I get animation to play on movement of scrollwheel? (regardless of whether the page actually scrolls)

I've tried calling sym.play() in my scroll event but that doesn't do the trick. I don't want the page to scroll, I just want to play my animation whenever the user flicks the scrollwheel on the mouse. And preferably I would be able to do different actions depending on whether the scroll is up or down. Is this possible?