basketball player

Questions about basketball player

What does basketball player mean?

basketball player means "an athlete who plays basketball".

What is another word for basketball player?

Close synonyms include basketeer, cager. 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 player a common word?

basketball player 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.