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Synonyms for basketball
ˈbæs kɪtˌbɔl, ˈbɑ skɪt-bas·ket·ball
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Wiktionary
basketballnoun
A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
Synonyms:
hoops
Princeton's WordNet
basketball, basketball game, hoopsnoun
a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
Synonyms:
hoops, basketball gamebasketballnoun
an inflated ball used in playing basketball
Synonyms:
hoops, basketball game
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1823 | basket | |
#1887 | ball | |
#2374 | basketball | |
#4414 | nba | |
#15570 | hoops | |
#29612 | sneaker |
How to use basketball in a sentence?
We'll have our basketball games out in the park.
I have no problem with it. I just want to win basketball games.
This scandal changes little, we all knew money was changing hands. It happens in all sports, baseball, soccer, basketball.
I hope she is No. 1, she taught us how to break the glass ceiling for women's basketball and women's coaches right here at South Carolina.
We stopped passing, we went back to hero basketball.
Translations for basketball
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- balonzestoAragonese
- كرة السلة, كرة سلةArabic
- basketbol topu, basketbolAzerbaijani
- баскетбо́лBelarusian
- баскетболBulgarian
- དྲ་ཕས་སྤོ་ལོ།Tibetan Standard
- bàsquet, basquetbolCatalan, Valencian
- basketbalCzech
- баскетболChuvash
- pêl fasgedWelsh
- basketballDanish
- BasketballGerman
- καλαθοσφαίρισηGreek
- korbopilkadoEsperanto
- baloncesto, básquetbolSpanish
- korvpallEstonian
- saskibaloiBasque
- بسکتبالPersian
- koripalloilu, koripalloFinnish
- kurvabólturFaroese
- basketball, basket-ballFrench
- cispheilIrish
- ball-basgaidScottish Gaelic
- baloncestoGalician
- כַּדּוּרְסַלHebrew
- बास्केटबॉलHindi
- baskètbòlHaitian Creole
- kosárlabdaHungarian
- բասկետբոլի գնդակ, բասկետբոլArmenian
- basketballInterlingua
- bola basketIndonesian
- korbobalonoIdo
- körfuknattleikur, körfuboltiIcelandic
- pallacanestroItalian
- バスケットボール, バスケJapanese
- კალათბურთიGeorgian
- 농구공, 농구Korean
- баскетболKyrgyz
- basketballLatin
- ບານບ້ວງLao
- krepšinisLithuanian
- basketbolsLatvian
- кошарка́рска топка, кошаркаMacedonian
- ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോള്Malayalam
- बास्केटबॉलMarathi
- bola keranjangMalay
- baskitbolMaltese
- basketbalDutch
- korgballNorwegian Nynorsk
- basketballNorwegian
- jooł nikídílniihí, joołNavajo, Navaho
- koszykówka, piłka do koszykówkiPolish
- [[bola]] [[de]] [[basquete]]/[[basquetebol]], basquete, bola-ao-cesto, basquetebolPortuguese
- ballabasketRomansh
- baschet, minge de baschetRomanian
- баскетбо́льный мяч, баскетбо́лRussian
- kòšārka, ко̀ша̄ркаSerbo-Croatian
- basketbalSlovak
- košárkaSlovene
- pasiketipoloSamoan
- basketbolliAlbanian
- korgboll, basket, basketbollSwedish
- கூடைப்பந்துTamil
- బాస్కెట్బాల్, బాస్కెట్ బాల్Telugu
- บาสเกตบอลThai
- basketbolTagalog
- basket, basketbol topu, basketbolTurkish
- кошикі́вка, м’яч до кошикі́вки, баскетбо́л, баскетбо́льний м’ячUkrainian
- bóng rổVietnamese
- bäsetaglöpäd, bäsetaglöpVolapük
- קוישבאָל, באסקעטבאלYiddish
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