basketball game
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- noun
- /ˈbæskɪtˌbɔl ɡeɪm/
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partido de baloncesto
- Last night, I watched an exciting basketball game between two rival teams that went into overtime.
- attend a basketball game
- play a basketball game
- pick-up basketball game
And you're probably thinking about last night's basketball game or your dream car.
- And you're probably thinking about last night's basketball game or your dream car.
- And then the opportunity to go to a basketball game presented itself.
- Kyrie Irving attended a basketball game courtside but couldn't play for his team, right?
- When's your son's next basketball game?
- Like that's where people forget like buying TV commercials to play during basketball games and like things that people are actually watching live.
- I mean, Michael Jordan once played a whole basketball game with the flu, but when I was sick I couldn't stand up for three days.
- This is my girlfriend, my friend and I brought her to meet Drew and his mom at Cam's basketball game.
- Even when it started, there was a charity basketball game many years ago and people died.
- We got to sit in there and watch like some basketball games together and hockey.
- Like doing blackface at a basketball game a year ago.
Examples
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I'm going to my basketball game.
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So for years my kids would go to these basketball games and it would be like proud baller mom.
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And then the opportunity to go to a basketball game presented itself.
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Oh, hell yeah, I have a basketball game tomorrow.
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Mom and I went to the basketball game the other night.
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Mike just won the basketball game.
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Perhaps my friend wanted to buy tickets to a basketball game at the Garden.
Fiction book (1997) -
The family had often just come home from a community activity, like a basketball game.
Fiction book (1997) -
We got a basketball game every Tuesday night at 6:00.
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Then it was time for the basketball game, and all the Navajo men perked up.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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One part of a match in sports, played to win points
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A team game played on a court where players score by throwing a ball through a hoop
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A team sport where players try to score by throwing a ball through a basket
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'basketball' specifies the type of 'game', so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it as a game involving basketball (whether played on court or simulated). The video-game nuance is a contextual extension but does not break the transparent, modifier+noun composition which is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Basketball game comes from the simple image of throwing a ball into a basket — the very first games used a real peach basket as the hoop. So the name describes the main action and means 'a game of basketball'.