Word List Basketball 317 words

Basketball Vocabulary Word List (317)

• A

  ability, accusation, active, advantage, aggressive, alternate, announcement, assist, assistance, athlete, athletics, attempt, attendance, attraction, averages

• B

  balance, ball, basketball, battle, benefit, berth, best, body, bones, bounce, breath, breathe, buzzer

• C

  captivate, cardiovascular, center, champion, championship, charisma, clinch, clutch, coach, collapse, competition, conditioning, conference, consecutive, contract, convincing, coordination, courage, critical, crowd, crucial

• D

  deadline, defeat, defend, defense, defensive, deficit, diet, disease, distraction, division, divisional, doctor, dribble, drive, drop, drugs, dynamic

• E

  elimination, emphasize, endurance, energy, errors, exaltation, exciting, exemplary, exemption, exercise

• F

  fan(s), favorite, Final Four, finalist, firepower, fit, flagrant, flex, force(s), foul, framework, free throw, fumble, function

• G

  games, goal, goodwill, grip, gymnasium

• H

  hamstring, happenstance, health, healthy, high-stakes, hone, hoops, hooray, host, hurt, hygiene, hygienic

• I

  imagination, individual, infection, injury, instinctive, intensity, interception, interpretation, invalidate

• J

  jargon, judgment, jump

• K

  keep, key, kindred, klutz

• L

  leader, league, legend, lopsided, lose, losing, loss, lucky, lumbar

• M

  magic, manager, margin, massage, maximize, measure, medication, memory, metabolic, minimize, miss, moisture, monitor, motivate, motivation, muscles

• N

  national, NCAA, nemesis, normalcy

• O

  offensive, official, officiate, opportunity, opt, optimism, option, outbreak, outstanding, overtime

• P

  panic, participation, passionate, penalties, percentage, performance, perimeter, period, perspiration, pessimism, petrify, physiotherapy, pick, player(s), playoff spot, points, position(ing), positive, possession, postseason, potent, power, practice, pressure, prevention, professional, program, promising, protect, protection, public

• Q

  quads, quality, quick, quiver

• R

  rank(ing), rarity, rebound, recognition, record, recovery, recruit, regional, regular, regulation(s), rehabilitation, relax, replace, representative, reserve, resilient, resistance, restriction, risk, role, routine, rush, rusty

• S

  sanitary, satisfaction, save, scare, scheme, scholarship, score(s), scoreboard, scoring, season, sensible, shape up, shot, shut-out, sidelines, size, skid, skill, slump, sole, solo, soreness, speculation, spirit, sport(s), sportsmanship, stability, stamina, standing(s), starter, statistics, strain, strategy, streak, strength, stretch(ing), stride, strong, substitute, superstition, support, supremacy, suspension, symptoms

• T

  team, teammate, technical, terror, test(ing), therapeutic, therapy, three-pointer, tie, time, timeout, timing, tone, torso, tournament, trail, trainer, training, transform(ation), tremors, trot, turnover(s)

• U

  unbelievable, uniform, unique, unrestricted, unusual

• V

  valiant, valor, vibration, victorious, victory, violation, votes

• W

  waive, warm up, watchful, weigh, weights, win, wince, winning, wisdom, work, workout, wrist

• X

  x-rays

• Y

  yelling, youth

• Z

  zeal, zero, zest