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Basketball

noun

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: basketball game, hoops.

An inflated ball used in playing basketball.

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"Basketball" Quotes from Famous Books

... had heard of the observing of special days, Thanksgiving and Christmas particularly; of the rage for athletic equipment on every farm which had youngsters, so that the usual anaemic croquet outfit had given place to basketball practice sets, indoor-outdoor ball, volley-ball nets, and other paraphernalia. Some of it not much used now, since winter had come, but under Marty's leadership, a skating rink construction gang had thrown up a dirt embankment in a low spot near the creek and then cut a channel far enough ...

— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt

... attracted to girls, in or out of college, and I'd rather, just now, that it would be some pretty, nice-thinking college girl in a white sweater and a blue serge skirt, whose worst thought was wondering if you could be cajoled into taking her to the Freshman-Sophomore basketball game, than some red- lipped, black-jet-earringed siren gazing at you across the table in some basement cafe. And, goodness knows, Jock, you wear your clothes so beautifully that even the haberdashers' salesmen eye you with respect. I've seen ...

— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber

... carefully under his arm a sphere of about the size of a basketball and, if he had made it to my specifications, weighing thirty-five pounds. He had a worried frown on ...

— The Big Bounce • Walter S. Tevis

... in the chair has to sit there and watch his brother play basketball or jai alai, while he can't do anything himself. Like I say, kind of rough on both ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

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