penalty free throw

Questions about penalty free throw

What does penalty free throw mean?

penalty free throw means "an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line; given to penalize the other team for committing a foul".

What is another word for penalty free throw?

Close synonyms include foul shot, free throw, charity toss, charity throw, charity shot. 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 penalty free throw a common word?

penalty free throw 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.