shootaroundn.
/ˈʃuːtəraʊnd/, U.S. /ˈʃudəˌraʊnd/ Basketball.
An informal practice session, typically on the morning before a game.
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1971 Los Angeles Times 17 Oct. d2/7 Sharman has emphasized conditioning and has backed it up with morning ‘shoot arounds’ the day of a game.
1992 E. Johnson & W. Novak My Life viii. 108 Although Kareem wasn't at our morning shootaround, people still believed he would make a dramatic eleventh-hour appearance at the Spectrum.
2001 Toronto Star 13 Jan. c5/4 A team shoot-around in preparation for a game against Cleveland last night.
2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 Dec. b12 ‘Some days the rhythm is kind of there,’ he said as the Knicks wound down their morning shootaround, ‘and some days the rhythm is not.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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