The present article analyses verbs of falling and throwing in Basque. The frame-based approach is used to find out the relevant semantic oppositions. Both elicitation and corpus data are used in the study. The dominant Basque verbs of falling are erori ‘to fall’ and its Bizcayan counterpart jautsi , which can be used in most of the frames. Another verb, isuri ‘flow’, can refer to liquids, as well as the dominant verb. The verb etorri ‘to come’ refers to liquids moving horizontally, rather than vertically. Falling of hair and teeth can be expressed with the verb galdu ‘to lose’. The only frame where the dominant verb erori is hardly ever used is falling of rain and snow. The predicate ari izan with progressive meaning and the verbs egin ‘to do’ and bota ‘to throw’ can be used instead. The dominant verb of throwing in Basque is bota ‘to throw’ taking both allative and locative arguments. Intensive throwing is expressed by verbs jaurti , jaurtiki , aurtiki ‘throw, toss, cast’. Some verbs of throwing, such as lur