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basketball

nomverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl//
  • États-Unis//ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl//
  • //ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl//

A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

nom

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *baskis Proto-Brythonicder. Late Latin bascauda Anglo-Norman bascatbor. Middle English basket English basket Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English basketball From basket + ball.

verbe

  1. 1

    familierTo play basketball.

    by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league

  2. 2

    familierTo 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.

Formes

pluriel
basketballs
passé
basketballed
participe passé
basketballed
participe présent
basketballing
3ᵉ personne du singulier
basketballs
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Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

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