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Alternative form of 3x3 basketball [(sports) A coach-less (no in-game coaching) form of basketball, with 2 opposing sides of 3 on-court players at a time on a side, on a court with a single basket, half the size of a regular basketball court, where defenders and attackers switch during play.]
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A volleyball game with nine players per side and a larger than normal court.
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(sports, soccer, golf, snooker etc.) A failed attempt to strike the ball.
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(basketball) A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.
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(tennis) A player who can play as a baseliner or serve-and-volleyer
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(US sports) A high and arcing pass, catch, or move, especially (basketball) a shot made by a player as part of the same jump used to catch a pass.
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(basketball, slang) The three-point line.
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An artificial grass surface made to resemble real grass, often used for sports fields.
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(historical) A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
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(squash, racquetball) The wall at the back of a racquetball or squash court, directly opposite the front wall.
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A children's game in which one player throws a ball backwards over his/her head towards the others, who attempt to catch it.
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(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
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(basketball) A backcourt player.
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(racquet sports) A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
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(sports) an indoor court on which the game of badminton is played.
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A person who plays badminton, especially professionally.
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(dated, rare) A badminton player.
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(Ireland) A place for playing handball, ranging in structure from a patch of hard flat ground beside a gable to an indoor four-walled court similar to a squash court
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A large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica to play the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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Alternative spelling of ball girl [(sports) A female responsible for getting the balls from off the area of play to the players.]
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(basketball) Skillful handling of the basketball when dribbling, passing or receiving
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(US, figuratively) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation.
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The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house, or outer court of a castle.
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Alternative form of base court [The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house, or outer court of a castle.]
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An outdoor or indoor area on which the game of basketball is played.
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(basketball) The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score
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A person who plays basketball, especially professionally.
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The jargon associated with the sport of basketball.
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(translation hub) One who plays beach volleyball.
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(darts) A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
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(sports) A shot that is grabbed or batted away by an opposing player before it reaches the basket, goal, etc.
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An indoor tabletop game, normally for children, simulating football (soccer), in which plastic straws are blown through in order to move a small ball and score goals.
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(basketball) A basketball player who specialises in rebounds.
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An indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America, and distinguished from field lacrosse.
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(basketball) To position oneself between an opposition player and the basket in anticipation of getting a rebound.
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(basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
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(field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
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(sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
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(basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
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(sports) In various sports, a visible or non-visible spot at the center of the playing surface.
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(netball) The central third of a netball court.
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(basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
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(US, basketball, informal) The free-throw line.
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(street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
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(tennis) Alternative form of claycourt [(tennis) A court whose surface is made of crushed shale, stone or brick.]
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(tennis) A tennis player who plays on a claycourt
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(basketball) A player who can play both the small forward and power forward positions.
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one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
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Alternative form of crosscourt [(tennis, net sports) Hit diagonally into the opposite corner of the court]
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(basketball) A violation committed by dribbling for a second time without giving up possession of the ball.
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(basketball) Toward one's team's offensive basket
adv
(basketball) Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.
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A drop shot hit with a volley.
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(pool) A secret accomplice who surreptitiously watches the competition and interferes by causing a distraction to prevent the opponent from getting a good shot.
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(basketball) A jump shot made while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making it much harder to block.
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(basketball) Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket.
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(basketball) An offensive play in which a team, having won possession of the ball, moves the ball downcourt as quickly as possible, attempting to get an easy shot before the defense can set up.
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(basketball) A shot that is scored while the ball is in play (i.e. not a free throw).
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A form of hockey played on a grassed pitch with a hard rubber ball instead of a puck.
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(intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.
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(basketball) A performance in which a player accumulates a total of five in five statistical categories — points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks — in a single game.
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(basketball) A rule that a closely-guarded player cannot hold the ball for more than five seconds without dribbling, passing, rolling, or shooting the ball.
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(basketball) Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
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(sports) The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released
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(chiefly US, Canada) table soccer (US), table football (UK)
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(sports) A variant of golf in which players attempt to kick a football into a cup.
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In racket sports, the front part of the court.
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(basketball) A free throw.
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(basketball, countable) A power forward.
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(basketball) A shot, worth one point, taken from the free-throw line and without opposition.
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(basketball) A line parallel to the baseline, fifteen feet from the plane of the backboard, from behind which a free throw may be taken.
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(basketball) The half of the court where a team's offensive basket is located
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A two-walled or single-walled court used as a playing area for Basque pelota.
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(basketball) A shot, especially a free throw, with little or no arc.
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Alternative spelling of full-court press [(basketball) A coordinated maneuver, involving all team members, to block or interfere with the opposing team's attempt to advance the ball down the playing court, so as to force a turnover or backcourt violation.]
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(basketball) A coordinated maneuver, involving all team members, to block or interfere with the opposing team's attempt to advance the ball down the playing court, so as to force a turnover or backcourt violation.
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(sports, rare) A shot that appeals to the watching audience.
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The ball that is used to play a sport.
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(disability, sports) A ball game, designed for the blind, in which teams of three players attempt to throw a ball with bells embedded in it into the opposing goal.
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(rare) A goalball player.
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(basketball) A method of shooting baskets, especially foul shots, in which the ball is thrown underhand, with both arms, from below or anterior to the pelvis.
adj
skilled at playing on a grass court
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(tennis) A forehand or backhand shot that is executed after the ball has bounced once on the court.
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A game of basketball played on half of the court. Generally, a player or team has to dribble the ball to the half-court line in order to get the chance to score points.
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(sports) A stroke, in ball sports, in which the ball is hit immediately after it bounces off the ground
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Alternative form of half court [A game of basketball played on half of the court. Generally, a player or team has to dribble the ball to the half-court line in order to get the chance to score points.]
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(basketball) The line parallel to the end lines and midway between them.
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(basketball) The middle of the court, at and near the center line
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Alternative spelling of handball [(uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.]
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(uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
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Alternative form of hardcourt. [A tennis court having a hard surface, frequently concrete]
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One who plays the sport of hardball.
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(sports, slang) The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.
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(basketball) A situation in which players of opposing teams both hold the ball, with neither clearly possessing it outright.
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(basketball, derogatory) A style of play where a single player tries to be the team's hero by taking and missing many low percentage shots.
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(slang) A logger who works very hard or very fast.
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(tennis) A player with whom one practises playing rallies, though not as a coach.
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(basketball) The home court of a basketball team.
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(basketball) A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.
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(tennis) A formation in doubles where the server's partner starts crouched down close to the center of the net
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(basketball) To pass a ball inbounds; to throw the ball in.
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(in basketball) A player making an inbound pass.
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(basketball) A goal attempt that does not result from a direct pass.
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a Basque ball game in which the players propel the ball using a long basket attached to the wrist
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A method used to begin or resume play in basketball. Two opposing players attempt to gain control of the ball after it is tossed up into the air in between them by an official.
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(basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
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(tennis, sometimes derogatory) A player that hits a lot of slow shots.
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(South Africa) A children’s (boy’s) game where a short stick is flipped into the air by a longer stick, batted and hopefully caught by ‘fielders’.
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(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
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(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line; key.
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The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.
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(sports) A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by achieving a higher score by scoring goals within the allotted time.
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(basketball) The act of entering the free-throw lane before the free-throw shot has left the shooter's hands.
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(slang, dated, countable) A player of lawn tennis.
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(basketball) A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim.
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(basketball) A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
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(basketball, rare) Synonym of alley oop.
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(basketball) The low post area area on a basketball court.
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(basketball) The areas that are closest to the basket but outside of the free throw lane.
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A game resembling football (soccer), but with players (except the goalkeepers) riding motorcycles, and with a much larger ball.
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An intercollegiate sport based on Quidditch, with the rules adapted for playing on the ground.
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A team sport resembling dodgeball in which players are eliminated ("murdered") by being struck with the ball.
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(netball) A netball player.
adj
Playing or relating to the sport of netball.
n
(tennis) The area between the backcourt and the space close to the net, from which it is difficult to return the ball.
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(basketball) The situation where the ball passes through the net without striking either the rim or the backboard.
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(basketball) A foul committed by a member of the team with possession of the ball.
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An outer or exterior court.
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(basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
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(volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
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(basketball) An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass.
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(basketball, colloquial) Points scored from within the free-throw line.
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(translation hub) A player of polo
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(basketball) A dunk over a defending player.
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The ball used for this practice.
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(tennis) A defensive player who does not attempt to hit winners, instead playing slower shots into the opponent's court.
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(basketball) A high arcing shot into the basket.
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(retronym) an indoor racket sport from which the modern game of tennis (lawn tennis) is descended
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(basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
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In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
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(tennis) The silver bowl awarded to the winners of the Davis Cup.
v
(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
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Alternative form of sepak takraw [A sport of Southeast Asia, in which a small rattan ball is kicked back and forth over a net.]
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(tennis) A player who employs the serve and volley strategy.
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(tennis) The part of the court in which the ball must land on a serve.
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(basketball) A shot taken without jumping.
adj
(tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
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(basketball) An informal practice session
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(netball) One of two semicircles in the goal thirds, radius 4.9 metres, in which the goal shooter and goal attack can shoot.
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(sports) A player who is skilled at making shots and scoring even against skilled defense.
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(sports) A court with a relatively large crowd capacity
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Alternative form of show court [(sports) A court with a relatively large crowd capacity]
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(sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
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(field hockey or ice hockey) A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist.
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A ball that is designed for use in the sport of soccer; a football.
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Alternative form of soccer ball [A ball that is designed for use in the sport of soccer; a football.]
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(rare, proscribed) soccer player
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A player of street basketball.
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(basketball) A power forward able to shoot three-pointers.
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(chiefly US) Alternative form of table football [A game, based on football (soccer), in which opposing players are represented by small figures mounted on rotating bars.]
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An indoor ball game for two teams of twelve players (seven on the court at any time), in which points are scored by throwing the ball so that it hits a frame and bounces outside of a semicircular region.
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(basketball) Any infraction of the rules penalized as a foul which does not involve physical contact during the course of play between players on the court, or is a foul by a nonplayer.
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(basketball) The rule that a team must advance the ball over the center line within ten seconds of gaining possession. The 10-second interval is used in U.S. high school and college basketball; professional leagues use an 8-second limit.
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(non-native speakers' English) A male tennis player.
v
(basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
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A sport in which two teams of eight players contend to get a ball resembling a tennis ball into the other team's goal, defended by a player with a racquet.
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(soccer) Alternative form of toe-poke [(soccer) To kick (the ball) with the toe end of the boot.]
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(basketball, derogatory) The accumulation of nine or fewer each of points, rebounds and assists a single game.
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(tennis) A shot that is hit between the legs.
adv
(basketball) Toward a team's offensive basket, the basket at which points are scored
v
(sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
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(Philippines, sports journalism) A female volleyball player.
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A game similar to association football and rugby union that originated from and is still played at Eton College.
v
(basketball) Of a referee, to disallow a field goal with the aforementioned hand gesture.
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(basketball) Someone who plays in the WNBA.
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