- basketball, basketball game, hoops - a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop
--1 is a kind of court game
--1 has parts:
--1 has particulars: professional basketballbasketball shot; rebound; tip-off, tap-off; basketball play; half - basketball - an inflated ball used in playing basketball
--2 is a kind of ball; basketball equipment