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DRIBBLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
Synonyms:
dribble; dribbling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dribbling" is a kind of...):
actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)
Domain category:
association football; soccer (a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal)
basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dribbling"):
double dribble (an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop))
Derivation:
dribble (propel)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dribble
