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/ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/ · noun
(sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop..
to play basketball
He pursued basketball as his career.
Children playing basketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants.
by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.
Use basketball when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Basketball means (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop..
Common synonyms include hoops, b-ball, basketball game.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to play basketball
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