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Meanings of hoops in English

Portuguese
bola-ao-cesto
Catalan
bàsquet
Spanish
baloncesto

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.

bola-ao-cesto
Usage of hoops in English
1
You bring enough hoops together, you're talking about a lot of weight.
Wired
2
And started keeping track of how many hoops they could keep going.
Wired
3
The casks they certainly will, for the sake of the iron hoops.
Masterman Ready
4
Miguel grinned, and laughed until the gold hoops in his ears shook.
The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
5
Charlie had attended Duke on a hoops scholarship, then UNC-Chapel Hill law.
Devil Bones
6
In a few minutes, four iron hoops were taken off the cask.
The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Cent...
7
The third game had a fish swimming through hoops in the ocean.
Brain jack
8
Brendon appeared, pulling himself along a line of closely spaced grab hoops.
The Reality Dysfunction
9
These hoops were sometimes inside and sometimes outside the bucket or dish.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
10
One of these hoops was hung on cords just behind the stable.
Hiding the Elephant
11
She stood, in her mother's hoops, for the desire of the world.
The Old Wives' Tale
12
Her hoops flattened as she made her way through the narrow entrance.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
13
Her eyes could hardly move quickly enough to watch all the hoops.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
14
SARS requires significant paperwork and there are many hoops to jump through.
The South African
15
Probably because he'd been hurled through so many emotional hoops just lately.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
16
They determine what hoops an ISP must jump through to get approval.
Wired
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Translations for hoops
Spanish
baloncesto
Hoops through the time
Hoops across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common