basketball
noun
bas·ket·ball
ˈba-skit-ˌbȯl 
often attributive
: a usually indoor court game between two teams of usually five players each who score by tossing an inflated ball through a raised goal
also
: the ball used in this game
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Our obsession with ranking greatness // NCAAs crescendo with exciting Final Fours, but college basketball is broken.
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Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 2 June 2025
Porter spent one season at Mizzou and played high school basketball at Tolton.
—Andy Theobald, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2025
Our obsession with ranking greatness // NCAAs crescendo with exciting Final Fours, but college basketball is broken.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 June 2025
And a Knicks team that has built a reputation as being one of the most resilient bunches in all of basketball — a Knicks team that erased not one, not two, but three 20-point deficits this post-season alone, didn’t have the magic in their final game of the season.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 June 2025
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“Basketball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/basketball. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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basketball
noun
bas·ket·ball
-ˌbȯl
: a court game in which each of two teams tries to toss an inflated ball through a raised goal
also
: the ball used in this game
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