basketball

Etymology

basket + ball

noun

1. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
   play basketball
2. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

verb

1. To play basketball
   by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward
2. To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball
   He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him. 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies