Tom can't dribble a basketball very well.
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Dribble
//ˈdɹɪ.bɫ̩//
Synonyms for "dribble" (160 found)
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Noun(14 words)
Related words (80)
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1 entriesTranslations
142 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- driblim noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- dribloj verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Bulgarian
4 entries- дрибъл noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- капене noun (trickle)
- капка noun (small amount of liquid)
- росене noun (trickle)
Catalan
4 entries- bava noun (small amount of liquid)
- conducció noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- driblatge noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- gota noun (small amount of liquid)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 滴涎 verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Czech
4 entries- driblovat verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- kapat verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
- nechat kapat verb (to let something fall in drips)
- odkapávat verb (to let something fall in drips)
Dutch
4 entries- dribbelen noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- druppel noun (small amount of liquid)
- dribbelen verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- druppelen verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
Esperanto
4 entries- bavi verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
- dribli verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- guti verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
- pogute versi verb (to let something fall in drips)
Finnish
4 entries- kuljettaminen noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- noro noun (trickle)
- pisara noun (small amount of liquid)
- tilkka noun (small amount of liquid)
French
4 entries- bave noun (trickle)
- dribble noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- goutte noun (small amount of liquid)
- baver verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Galician
4 entries- baba noun (trickle)
- baballa noun (trickle)
- babuxa noun (trickle)
- caneo noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
German
4 entries- Dribbeln noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- Dribbling noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- dribbeln verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- geifern verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Greenlandic
1 entries- arsamik ingerlatsineq noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
Hebrew
2 entries- כדרור noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- כדרר verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Hungarian
4 entries- csepeg verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
- csepegtet verb (to let something fall in drips)
- cseppen verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
- csurran verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
Icelandic
1 entries- dripla verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Ido
2 entries- bavar verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
- driblar verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Irish
2 entries- druibleáil noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- druibleáil verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Italian
4 entries- bava noun (trickle)
- bava noun (small amount of liquid)
- dribblare verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- sbavare verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Japanese
1 entries- 滲む verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- tāi verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Manx
1 entries- sheel verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
Māori
3 entries- hāwareware verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
- pāhīhī verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
- ārahirahi verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- drible verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Persian
1 entries- دریبل noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
Polish
1 entries- kozłować verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Portuguese
4 entries- drible noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- babar verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
- driblar verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- gotejar verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
Romanian
2 entries- dribling noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- dribla verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Russian
2 entries- вести́ мяч verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- пуска́ть слюни verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- driblanje noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- dribling noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- дриблање noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- дриблинг noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
Spanish
4 entries- gambeta noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- regate noun (act of kicking or bouncing a ball)
- babear verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
- cachañear verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
Swedish
3 entries- dregla verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
- dribbla verb (to move (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it)
- droppa verb (to fall in drops or an unsteady stream)
Tamil
1 entries- ஜொள்ளு விடு verb (to let saliva drip from the mouth)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Tom doesn't know how to dribble a ball.
Source: tatoeba (2640977)
I don't know how to dribble a basketball.
Source: tatoeba (6659320)
Ziri picked up a ball and started to dribble it around the court.
Source: tatoeba (11017703)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.