In case it has been a while for you since your last variation of pickup basketball, Around the World is the game where you designate certain spots on the court to shoot in a particular order and see who can make them the fastest.
More from Editorials
You shoot until you miss, and each time you make the shot, you advance to the next station to shoot. Hence the title of the game.
The stations are arbitrary, but usually how my friends and I would play it is that there’d be midrange sections corresponding to different areas of the key and then it would loop around to those same areas but beyond the 3-point arc.