List of ball games
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This is a list of ball games and ball sports that include a ball as a key element in the activity, usually for scoring points.
Games that include balls
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Ball sports fall within many sport categories, some sports within multiple categories, including:
- Bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball.
- Invasion games, such as football and basketball.
- Net and wall games, such as volleyball.
- Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton (which is played with a shuttlecock instead of a ball).
- Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball, and four square.
- Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce.
- Cue sports, such as pool and snooker.
- Target sports, such as golf and bowling.
Popular ball games
[edit]Games that are similar and have a common reference are grouped under the primary name such as bowling, football and hockey.
A–E
[edit]- Angleball
- Apalachee ball game
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Basque pelota
- Beach tennis
- Bossaball
- Boules
- Bocce
- Bocce volo
- Boccia
- Bolas criollas
- Bowls or "lawn bowls"
- Jeu provençal
- Pétanque
- Raffa (boules)
- Bowling
- Brännboll
- British baseball
- Broomball
- Canoe polo
- Camogie
- Cestoball
- Chinese handball
- Codeball
- Cricket (see cricket ball)
- Crossnet
- Cue sports (also knowns as billiards)
- Carom billiards
- English billiards
- Pool (or pocket billiards)
- Russian pyramid
- Snooker
- Cycle ball
- Dodgeball
- Downball
- Dunk tank
F–K
[edit]- Fistball
- Fives
- Flag football
- Flickerball
- Football
- Footvolley
- Four square
- Gaga
- Goalball
- Golf
- Ground billiards
- Half-rubber
- Handball
- Hooverball
- Hockey
- Hocker (defunct)
- Hurling
- Jai alai
- Jokgu
- Jorkyball
- Juggling
- Kickball
- Kick-to-kick (includes end-to-end footy)
- Kin-Ball
- Klootschieten
- Knuckleball
- Korfball
L–P
[edit]Q–Z
[edit]- Racquetball
- Ringball
- Rock-It-Ball
- Roliball
- Rounders
- Roundnet (spikeball)
- Sepak takraw
- Shinty
- Showdown
- Sipa
- Skee ball
- Slamball
- Softball
- Squash
- Stickball
- Stickball (Native American)
- Streetball
- Table football (foosball)
- Table tennis (ping pong)
- TagPro (esports)
- Tchoukball
- Team handball
- Tee ball
- Tennis
- Tetherball
- Teqball
- Ulama
- Valencian pilota
- Underwater sports
- Volleyball
- Waboba
- Wallball_(children's_game)
- Water basketball
- Water polo
- Welsh handball
- Wiffleball
- Wireball