BASKETBALL PLAY

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 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)

Sense 1

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)