Meaning & use
chest pass
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Meaning
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A pass in basketball or similar sports made by pushing the ball with both hands from the chest to a teammate.
Grammar: Countable: say 'a chest pass' or 'chest passes'.
Patterns
- make a chest pass
- throw a chest pass
- a chest pass to someone
She made a quick chest pass to her teammate under the basket.
The coach taught us to use a chest pass for short, accurate throws.
He caught the chest pass and scored easily.
Word forms
| plural | chest passes |
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Common combinations
- make a chest pass
- She made a chest pass to start the fast break.
- throw a chest pass
- He threw a chest pass that was intercepted.
- accurate chest pass
- An accurate chest pass is hard to defend.
- chest pass to someone
- The point guard delivered a chest pass to the center.
Synonyms and how they differ
- two-handed pass
- A more general term for any pass made with both hands, not necessarily from the chest.
- push pass
- Similar but often refers to a pass made with a pushing motion, sometimes one-handed.
Word family
Commonly confused: chest pass or bounce pass?
chest pass vs bounce pass
A bounce pass hits the floor before reaching the teammate; a chest pass travels straight through the air from the chest.
Practice
In basketball, which pass is thrown directly from the chest with both hands?
Choose one answer.
A chest pass is pushed from the chest with both hands. A bounce pass hits the floor first, a baseball pass is a long one-handed throw, and a behind-the-back pass is thrown from behind the body.
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