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Definition of Jump shot
1. Noun. (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump.
Generic synonyms: Basketball Shot
Category relationships: Basketball, Basketball Game, Hoops
Definition of Jump shot
1. Noun. (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jump Shot
Literary usage of Jump shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of an Athlete: Twenty Years on Track and Field by Ellery Harding Clark (1911)
"... and third in the high jump, shot, and mile walk; after which I took a flying
trip to Canada, winning second in the high jump, shot, and high hurdles, ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Distance So metres hurdle» High Jump Long jump shot Discus Javelin Pentathlon
Women's United Kingdom All-Come n Records—continued Time «0.7 10-7 10-7 Name ..."
3. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"... jump Shot put (8, io, and 12 pounds) / HIGH SCHOOLS Baseball Hurdles, low —
220 Basket ball yards Intercollegiate football Hurdles, high — 120 Lacrosse ..."
4. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1903)
"On Saturday the high-jump, shot-put, pole-vault, and two-mile run were run off
on the new field in front of Technology Cham- ..."
5. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"jump shot. Striking the ball so as to make it jump over any obstacle between it
and the object aimed at. To do this, the ball should be struck with ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The jump-shot is, however, very bad for the lawn, and in 1007 a further provision
was made by which the player whose ball is left " wired " from all the ..."
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