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Basketball game   /bˈæskətbˌɔl geɪm/   Listen
Basketball game

noun
1.
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, hoops.






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"Basketball game" Quotes from Famous Books



... for her, Nan Sherwood," commanded the red-haired girl sharply. "I won't have it. She never saw a basketball game before. She can scarcely lift herself waist-high on the parallel bars. Couldn't chin herself five times in succession on the trapeze to save her life. Why! she might as well be her own grandmother, she ...
— Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch • Annie Roe Carr



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