hoop
part of speech
noun (a hoop, hoops); verb (hoop — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) A large ring made of wood, metal or plastic. tree →
2) The ring and net that you throw the ball through in basketball. tree →
3) (hoops, informal) The game of basketball. tree →
4) A hula hoop, a plastic ring you spin around your waist. tree →
5) (jump through hoops) To do many hard or boring tasks to get something. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PE and play: hula hoops, throwing beanbags into hoops, jumping through hoops in races; basketball hoops. In maths a hoop is a circle shape. In Venn diagrams on the floor, teachers use hoops to sort objects. Phrases: «shoot hoops», «hula hoop», «jump through hoops».
examples
- She can spin the hula hoop for five minutes. tree →
- He threw the ball through the hoop and scored. tree →
- Let's go and shoot some hoops after school. tree →
- We sorted the shapes into two hoops on the floor. tree →
- The circus dog jumped through a hoop. tree →
- Wear big hoop earrings for the party. tree →
- We had to jump through hoops to get the tickets. tree →
- One of the hoops will snap. tree →
note
Countable. Do not confuse with «whoop» (a loud shout of joy), which can sound similar. A hoop is a ring, so its shape is a circle.
In the corpora
- You do not hang on the basketball rim, because the hoop or you can fall.
- He can't shoot hoops like before, and Bryce misses the old Dad.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hoop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.