Categories: Sporting goods | Ball games Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... Pool table with cue ball, object balls, cue stick, and rack Billards balls Billiards is a game played on a table with low rubber boundary around the edges, small balls, and a cue, a stick that is used to push the white ball into other balls. ... Snooker table Snooker is a variation of the game of billiards played on a baize-covered table that has pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long cushions. ... For the Dan Clowes comic, see Eightball Eight ball is a billiards game played with a cue ball and 15 billiard balls on a pool table with 6 pockets. ... A set of Bocce balls Bocce is a precision sport closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. ... Boules /bul/ is a collective name for games played with metal balls. ... Bowling ball and two pins Bowling can refer to two distinctly different types of game. ... Men playing bowls Bowls (or Lawn Bowls) is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack) than ones opponent is able to do. ... Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic – albeit stuffed – tiger. ... Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. ... Canoe polo (called kayak polo in some countries) is a competitive ball sport played on water, in a defined field, between two teams of 5 players, each in a kayak. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Cricket ball The cricket ball is a hard, solid ball with an interior of cork and a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. ... Crockey is an amateur bat and ball sport. ... Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena. ... Dodgeball (or dodge ball) is the name of a traditional elementary school game, taught in physical education classes, but also popular in informal settings, often played by schoolchildren on a playground. ... An Australian rules football match at the Richmond Paddock, Melbourne, in 1866. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Australian Rules redirects here. ... Gaelic football (Irish: peil) is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Rugby football, as a catch-all term, may refer to two related but separate team sports: rugby league and rugby union. ... A crocheted rainbow-colored footbag A footbag is a small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of sports and games. ... The serve and first two hits in a Four Square game. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... A golf ball on a Tee with a driver ready for a drive A golf ball is a ball designed for use in the game of golf. ... Handball is the name of several different sports: Team handball is a game somewhat similar to association football, but the ball is played with the hand rather than the foot American handball and Gaelic handball where a sometimes-gloved hand is used to play the ball against a wall. ... American (or court) handball is an American form of fives played against one or more walls has origins in pre-Hispanic central America (about 1500 BC) and Scotland/Ireland circa 1500 AD. It is similar to (and in fact preceded) racquetball and squash. ... Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ... Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a hard, round ball or a puck into the opponents goal, past the goalkeeper or goaltender (often abbreviated goalie), using a stick. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field Hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Rink hockey (sometimes called roller hockey) is one of the three most popular hockey variants. ... Hurling is a team sport of Celtic origin, played with sticks and a ball. ... Now defunct Milford Jai-Alai Fronton in Milford, Connecticut. ... In its general sense, juggling can refer to all forms of artful or skillful object manipulation. ... High School lacrosse action. ... Great Ball Court at Chichén Itzá A Ball Court Goal, Chichén Itzá Ball court marker, from the Maya site of Chinkultic. ... Originally known as womens basketball and adapted from basketball in the USA, netball, while basically unknown in its homeland, is the preeminent womens team sport (both as a spectator and participant sport) in Australia and New Zealand and is popular in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, South Africa, and... On the beach at Nice, France Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a jack (a small wooden ball called a cochonnet in French, which means piglet). ... Polo (also known as Cho-gan) is a team game played on a field with one goal for each team. ... Quidditch is a fictional airborne ballgame (played on broomsticks), a sort of magical variant of football or polo. ... Shinty, also known as camanachd, or iomain, is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. ... The object is to collect as many points as possible by rolling balls into the holes. ... Squash racquet and ball Squash is an indoor racquet sport which was, until recently, called Squash Rackets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its parent game Racquets or Rackets--see below). ... Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game, in particular large cities in the eastern United States. ... Tee Ball is the registered name for a sport based on baseball and intended as an introduction for young players. ... Two characters in Napoleon Dynamite get ready to play tetherball. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Ulama is a ball game played in Latin America, a variety of the Mesoamerican ballgame descended from an Aztec game ritual. ... Volleyball is a popular sport where teams separated by a high net hit a ball back and forth between the teams. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ...