DRIBBLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dribbling mean? 

• DRIBBLING (noun)
  The noun DRIBBLING has 1 sense:

1. the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks

  Familiarity information: DRIBBLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIBBLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dribble; dribbling

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)

 Context examples 

Whether it’s passing, or tackling, or dribbling, there’s no one to touch him, and then, he’s got the head, and can hold us all together.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)