Double dribble is the violation called when a player dribbles with both hands at once or restarts the dribble after stopping.
Double dribble polices the dribble itself. A player may dribble with one hand at a time, and once the dribble is stopped by holding the ball, it cannot be restarted: bounce it again and the whistle blows. Dribbling with two hands simultaneously, or carrying the ball so far under the hand that the dribble is judged to have ended, produces the same call and the same result, a turnover and a change of possession.
It is one of the first rules youth players learn and one of the last ones stars are called for, because elite ball handling blurs its edges. The crossover, the between the legs dribble, and the hesitation move all live close to the carrying line, and the modern game's relaxed palming enforcement is a permanent fan argument about where skill ends and violation begins.
In quiz terms, double dribble belongs with traveling in the family of self inflicted turnovers, the mistakes a team makes without defensive help. The box score records both simply as turnovers, but the glossary keeps them separate because the fandom's vocabulary does: every playground player has been called for one of the two and remembers exactly which.
In use"She picked up her dribble under pressure, dribbled again, and was called for double dribble."