Synonyms:
basketball, basketball_game, hoops
Meaning: 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
Usage examples
Their sorority enthusiasm had so completely run away with them that they had even neglected basketball until now.
"Yesterday," continued Julia, "I overheard two juniors plotting to get possession of this same hatchet for the purpose of flaunting it in the faces of the seniors at the opening basketball game.
Now that Thanksgiving was past, basketball became the topic of the hour. The juniors had accepted the challenge of the senior class, and had agreed to play them on Saturday, December 12, at two o'clock, in the gymnasium.
"This morning I overheard certain girls planning to go out to the Omnibus House after school to-morrow and dig up the poor hatchet and flaunt it in the seniors' faces the day of the opening basketball game, simply to rattle us.