globetrotters

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Definition von globetrotters im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: plural of globetrotter
Harlem Globetrotters: a black US basketball team who travel around the world to play games in which they entertain people with their skill at basketball and their amusing style of playing. African American professional basketball team. The team was organized in 1927 in Chicago by the promoter Abe Saperstein and initially was a competitive team that won a world professional championship in 1940. Since the 1930s the team had incorporated comic routines into their games, and, with the integration of the NBA in the 1950s, the team increasingly emphasized comedy over competition. For the next 50 years the Globetrotters played exhibition games all over the world, displaying spectacular ball handling and humorous antics and always defeating their official opposition, the Washington Generals. In the mid-1990s the team returned to playing competitive games
Harlem Globetrotters: basketball team from Harlem New York (USA) known for their unique and comical style of playing basketball
globetrotter: someone who travels widely and often
globetrotter: someone who spends a lot of their time travelling to many different countries
globetrotter: A person who travels often to faraway places
globetrotter: {i} world traveler