In football, soccer, and basketball, players try to intercept the ball as it's being passed by the other team.

For intercepting a moving object one needs information about its speed to regulate the timing of one's action, and information about its (egocentric) position to direct one's action.

INTERCEPT definition: to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination. See examples of intercept used in a sentence.

If you intercept someone or something that is travelling from one place to another, you stop them before they get to their destination. Gunmen intercepted him on his way to the airport. [VERB noun] Dodd …

Definition of intercept verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. intercept somebody/something to stop somebody/something that is going from one place to another from …

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To stop, deflect, or interrupt the progress or intended course of: intercepted me with a message as I was leaving. 2. Sports. a. To gain possession of (an opponent's pass), as in football or basketball. b. To …