shoot baskets

phrase

: to practice scoring goals in basketball

She is outside shooting baskets.

Examples of shoot baskets in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sometimes Mazzulla would appear in McClanaghan’s office during bathroom breaks wearing his shirt, tie, and dress shoes, and ask to shoot baskets. — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022

Then the group visited the nearby Pueblo Del Rio housing project to shoot baskets with kids on dilapidated backboards featuring rims without nets. — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022

At one end of the 1,086 foot-long building workers on break could shoot baskets. — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 9 June 2022

That first summer of 2018 at Saint Joseph’s old gym, Tyree Mitchell came to shoot baskets with Jackson, his former teammate. — Dom Amore, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2021

And his two-and-half-year old son likes to play with trucks, shoot baskets at a mini-hoop, swing the Wiffle ball bat and participate in neighborhood kickball games. — Tim Casey, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021

Bobby was Arizona State’s all-time basketball assist leader and used to take his son to the park to shoot baskets. — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021

Rhymes for shoot baskets

• caskets
• gaskets