basketball
UK/ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl//ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
basketball noun: a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
Noun
basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)
Verb
basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)
- To play basketball.
- by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league1968, Tom Tiede, Coward
- 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.1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies
basketball meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
basketball in Hindi
- the sport
- बास्केटबॉल bāskeṭbŏl, बास्केटबाल bāskeṭbāl
basketball in Tamil
- the sport
- கூடைப்பந்து kūṭaippantu
basketball in Marathi
- the sport
- बास्केटबॉल bāskeṭbŏl
basketball in Urdu
- the sport
- باسکیٹ بال bāskeṭ bāl
More languagesFewer languages
- basketball in Bengali
- বাস্কেটবল baskeṭbol
- basketball in Telugu
- బాస్కెట్ బాల్ bāskeṭ bāl
- basketball in Malayalam
- ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോള് bāskkaṟṟbōḷŭ
- basketball in Kannada
- ಬ್ಯಾಸ್ಕೆಟ್ಬಾಲ್
- basketball in Punjabi
- ਬਾਸਕਟਬਾਲ, ਬਾਸਕਿਟਬਾਲ
- basketball in Gujarati
- બાસ્કેટ બોલ bāskeṭ bol
- basketball in Odia
- ବାସ୍କେଟବଲ୍, ବାସ୍କେଟବଲ, ବାସ୍କେଟ୍ବଲ୍
- basketball in Sanskrit
- करण्डककन्दुकक्रीडा karaṇḍakakandukakrīḍā, करण्डककन्दुक karaṇḍakakanduka
- basketball in Sinhala
- පැසිපන්දු pæsipandu
- basketball in Nepali
- बास्केटबल
- basketball in Tagalog
- basketbol
- basketball in Arabic
- كُرَة اَلسَّلَّة kurat as-salla
- basketball in Malay
- bola keranjang
- basketball in Indonesian
- bola basket
- basketball in Persian
- بسکتبال basketbâl
- basketball in Thai
- บาสเกตบอล báas-gét-bɔl
- basketball in Vietnamese
- bóng rổ
- basketball in Myanmar
- ဘတ်စကက်ဘော bhatca.kakbhau:
Examples of basketball in a sentence
- Due to a left ankle sprain, the basketball player did not dress for the game against Indiana.
- The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.
- Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.
Synonyms of basketball
Forms of basketball
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | basketballs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | basketballs |
| present participle | basketballing |
| past participle | basketballed |
| past | basketballed |
Origin of basketball
From basket + ball.
Words formed from basketball
Phrases with basketball
Questions about basketball
- What does basketball mean?
- Basketball means a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
- What is basketball in Hindi?
- Basketball in Hindi is बास्केटबॉल (bāskeṭbŏl), बास्केटबाल (bāskeṭbāl). See Basketball meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is basketball?
- Basketball can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce basketball?
- Basketball is pronounced /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of basketball?
- The plural of basketball is basketballs.
Words near basketball in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: basketball (page history and authors); basketball (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); basketball (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basketball (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basketball (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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