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Netball

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A women's sport derived from basketball.

n. The ball used in this sport.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again

n. a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post

Word Usage

"Middleton attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire, where she studied chemistry, biology and art and played a number of sports, including tennis, hockey and netball, which is similar to basketball."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

serve service court game

Form

netballer

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