noun A team sport in which players score points by throwing a ball through a raised hoop.
- 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.
— Emily Cochrane, In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal (2021)
- They played basketball every day after school.
- He pursued basketball as his career.
- Basketball is popular at our school, and the gym is always busy.
- Do you want to watch the basketball on television tonight?
noun The inflated ball used to play this sport.
- He dribbled the basketball down the court.
- I need to pump some air into this flat basketball.
- She bounced the basketball twice before taking her shot.
