Usually means: Team sport with dribbling, shooting.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. basketball: Merriam-Webster
  2. basketball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. basketball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. basketball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. basketball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Basketball, basketball: Wordnik
  7. basketball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. basketball: Wiktionary
  9. basketball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. basketball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. basketball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. basketball: Dictionary.com
  13. basketball: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. basketball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BasketBall, Basketball (Intellivision game), Basketball (TV Series), Basketball (TV series), Basketball (The Office), Basketball (and Other Things), Basketball (ball), Basketball (disambiguation), Basketball (song), Basketball (video game), Basketball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. basketball: Rhymezone
  17. Basketball (m), basketball: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Basketball: American-Britih Dictionary
  19. basketball: FreeDictionary.org
  20. basketball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. basketball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. basketball: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. basketball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. basketball: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basketball: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basketball: Sports Definitions

(Note: See basketballs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
noun:  (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.

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