English
roundball
From round + ball, to contrast with the elliptical ball in American football.
The story
Attested from the 1980s.
Today it means
noun The sport of basketball.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “roundball”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / roundball