basketball
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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.
The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
To play basketball.
- by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
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To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
- 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.
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A definitional loop anchored at basketball. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
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