professional basketball

English Thesaurus

1. playing basketball for money (noun.act)

hypernym	:	sport,
definition	:	the occupation of athletes who compete for pay (noun.act)

hypernym	:	basketball, basketball game, hoops,
definition	:	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 (noun.act)

domain member category	:	quarter,
definition	:	(football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided (noun.time)