🏀 Toward opponent's end 🏀 Opponent's court area

downcourt

1 3.6

An area near the other team's basket at the far end of the court

noun
/ˈdaʊnˌkɔrt/

: zona de ataque

Then a short dude, runty and arrogant, who pushed the pill downcourt helterskelter, advantage or no, constantly jamming himself up.
downcourt passes

Examples

After grabbing the rebound, he immediately pushed the ball downcourt to set up the next play.
The drill itself was for the dribbler to race downcourt with a teammate on each side, heading towards the far basket, which was guarded by two defenders.

Fiction book (1990)
The player sprinted downcourt to receive the fast break pass and score an easy layup.
The coach emphasized the importance of getting the ball downcourt quickly to catch the defense off guard.

Synonyms

frontcourt

vsdowncourt

Jargon

4 3.9

The area near the other team's basket in basketball or the players who play there

refers only to the area near the opponent's basket not to players

Surface Forms

downcourt singular

downcourts plural

Morphology

downcourt = court (transparent) = down + court

Refers to the area toward the opponent's end of the court; the spatial relation of 'down' + 'court' is directly interpretable in sports contexts. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Downcourt combines down and court, where down means 'toward the far end' and court means 'playing area'. As a noun, downcourt names the part of the court near the other team's basket, the area you head into to attack.