"pick and roll" meaning in English

See pick and roll in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} pick and roll
  1. (basketball) An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass. Wikipedia link: pick and roll Categories (topical): Basketball

Download JSON data for pick and roll meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "pick and roll",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Basketball",
          "orig": "en:Basketball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass."
      ],
      "id": "en-pick_and_roll-en-noun-YKTfedVJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "basketball",
          "basketball"
        ],
        [
          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "defender",
          "defender"
        ],
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(basketball) An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "basketball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "pick and roll"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick and roll"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "pick and roll",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English coordinated pairs",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Basketball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "basketball",
          "basketball"
        ],
        [
          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ],
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "defender",
          "defender"
        ],
        [
          "pass",
          "pass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(basketball) An offensive play in which a player stops to block a defender for a teammate handling the ball and then slips behind the defender to accept a pass."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "basketball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "pick and roll"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick and roll"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.