basketball hoop

1. 1.

   horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

   Synonymsbaskethoop

   Broadergoalbasketball equipment

Questions about basketball hoop

What does basketball hoop mean?

basketball hoop means "horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball".

What is another word for basketball hoop?

Close synonyms include basket, hoop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basketball hoop a common word?

basketball hoop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.