hoop

hoop  (hp, hp)

n.

1. A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together.

2. A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through.

3. One of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt.

4. A circular, ringlike earring.

5. One of a pair of circular wooden or metal frames used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework.

6. Basketball

a. The basket.

b. A field goal: hit a big hoop.

c. also hoops The game of basketball.

7. Sports A croquet wicket.

tr.v. hooped, hoop·ing, hoops

1. To hold together or support with or as if with a hoop.

2. To encircle.

Idiom:

jump/go through the hoop

To undergo a rigorous trial or examination.

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[Middle English hop.]

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hoop

Noun

1. a rigid circular band of metal, plastic, or wood

2. a child's toy shaped like a hoop and rolled on the ground or whirled around the body

3. Croquet any of the iron arches through which the ball is driven

4. a large ring through which performers or animals jump

5. go or be put through the hoops to go through an ordeal or test

Verb

to surround (something) with a hoop [Old English hōp]

hooped adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hoop - a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt farthingale - a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries crinoline, hoopskirt - a skirt stiffened with hoops pannier - set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips skeletal frame, underframe, skeleton, frame - the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"
	2.	hoop - a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" ring band - a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) barrel, cask - a cylindrical container that holds liquids carabiner, karabiner, snap ring - an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes collar - a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part curtain ring - a circular ring for holding up a curtain key ring - a circular ring of metal for holding keys napkin ring - a circular band used to hold a particular person's napkin nose ring - a ring worn on the nose as an ornament or on the nose of an animal to control it rim - the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached rim - (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended; "the ball hit the rim and bounced off" tire, tyre - hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" towel ring - a circular hoop for holding a towel wagon wheel - a wheel of a wagon
	3.	hoop - a small arch used as croquet equipment wicket croquet equipment - sports equipment used in playing croquet
	4.	hoop - horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball basketball hoop, basket basketball equipment - sports equipment used in playing basketball goal - game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
Verb	1.	hoop - bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats" encircle, gird - bind with something round or circular

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hoop

noun ring, band, loop, wheel, round, girdle, circlet

Translations

hoop [huːp] n → aro

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hoop [huːp] n → cerceau m [of barrel]; cercle m

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hoop [huːp] n → Reifen m;

(for croquet) (arch) → Tor nt

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hoop [huːp] n → cerchio