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# basketball

«basketball» in Mova's school dictionary: **a team game where players bounce the ball and try to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (basketball; a basketball, basketballs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Basketball is a team game where players bounce the ball and try to throw it through a high hoop with a net. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#m1)

2) A basketball is the large orange ball used in the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE lessons pupils learn to dribble, pass and shoot. A team has five players on court. Scoring: a basket inside the line is 2 points, from far outside the arc 3 points, a free throw 1 point. Basketball was invented by James Naismith, a Canadian teacher working in the USA. Phrases: play basketball, basketball court, basketball hoop, shoot hoops.

### examples

- We play basketball in PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x1)
- He bounced the basketball down the court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x2)
- Each team has five players on the court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x3)
- She scored a basket from far away for three points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x4)
- The basketball hoop is very high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x5)
- Can I borrow your basketball? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x6)
- Our team won the basketball match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x7)
- Tall players are good at basketball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/#x8)

### note

One word. The game is uncountable (play basketball, no «a»); the ball is countable (a basketball). Maths: count points — 2 for a normal basket, 3 from beyond the three-point line, 1 for each free throw. You must bounce (dribble) the ball while you walk; running with it is not allowed.

### In the corpora

- [A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/13/)
- [You do not hang on the basketball rim, because the hoop or you can fall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/12/)
- [Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/10/)
- [In a study reported from Stanford, college basketball players who slept longer for several weeks shot free throws more accurately.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «basketball» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basketball/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.