backboard

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: back‧board

Noun

backboard (plural backboards)

1. (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
2. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it. Designed to practice hitting against such that the ball bounces back.
3. (medicine, first aid) A spine board.

Translations

basketball

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 籃板 (cmn), 篮板 (cmn) (lánbǎn)

• Finnish: taustalevy (fi)
• Icelandic: bakfjalir (is) f pl, spjald (is) n

• Irish: cúlchlár (ga) m
• Japanese: バックボード (ja) (bakkubōdo)
• Portuguese: tabela (pt) f