basketball has definitions from the fields of sport,basketball,games
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[ noun ] (sport,basketball,games) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop

Used in print

(The New York Times,...)

He played basketball there while working toward a law_degree .

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

Benington recalled that he once told Hartweger that he doubted Gordon would ever play much for him because he seemed to be lacking in all of the accepted basketball skills .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

The parallel_bars , horse , buck , springboard , horizontal_bar , rings , and mats formerly in the school gyms were replaced by baseball , volleyball , basketball and football .

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[ noun ] (basketball,games) an inflated ball used in playing basketball

Related terms

ball basketball_equipment

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