BASKETBALL PLAY
Dictionary entry overview: What does basketball play mean?
• BASKETBALL PLAY (noun)
The noun BASKETBALL PLAY has 1 sense:
1. a play executed by a basketball team
Familiarity information: BASKETBALL PLAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BASKETBALL PLAY (noun)
Meaning:
A play executed by a basketball team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("basketball play" is a kind of...):
play (a preset plan of action in team sports)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "basketball play"):
pick (a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body)
switch (a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other)
give-and-go (a basketball maneuver; one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass)
Holonyms ("basketball play" is a part of...):
basketball; basketball game; hoops (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)
