hook shot

Ball games, Basketball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.

Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height; a hook.

Golf, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”).

Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Synonym of hook (“shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side”).