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Synonyms:
- boxing, rugby, hoop, sharpshooting, cage meet, discus, shinny, snowball, center, ping-pong, curling, bowling ball, soccer, backboard, sphere, tennis ball, volleyball, goaltending, globe, wrestling, b-ball, foul line, snooker, football, hockey, full-court press, tennis, globule, birdie, dunk, cricket, basketball game, fencing, round ball, archery, foul out, bowling, bat, squash, cannon ball, sport, badminton, hoopfest, hoops, handball, table tennis, water polo, soft ball, croquet, orb, ball bearing, shot-put, ping-pong ball, ball, eight ball, golf, softball, baseball, medicine ball, skating, field goal, pool, golf ball, basket, lacrosse, polo, beach ball
Examples:
- - A student in one of our Church schools was once heard to say, " My teacher teaches me more religion by the way he plays basketball than by the way he teaches theology." - "Principles of Teaching", Adam S. Bennion
- - If I can lose five pounds more this summer I shall be in fine condition for basketball next fall. - "Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College", Jessie Graham Flower
- - Piety was cunningly disguised as basketball, billiards and squash; the sinner was lured to grace with Turkish baths, lectures on foreign travel, and free instructions in stenography, rhetoric and double- entry book- keeping. - "A Book of Prefaces", H. L. Mencken
