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A ball is a spherical round object with various uses.

Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer to:

Places

• Ball (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, UK
• Ball, Louisiana, a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, US
• Balls (mountain range), a mountain range in Madera County, California, US

People

• Ball (surname), a list of people with the surname Ball
• Balls (gamer), an American League of Legends player
• Balls Mahoney, an American professional wrestler
• Alastair Balls, a Scottish economist
• Andrew Balls, a British economist
• Ed Balls, a British politician
• Jonathan Balls, an English serial killer
• Katy Balls, a British journalist
• Mara Balls, a Finnish singer-songwriter
• Michael Balls, a British zoologist
• Norah Balls (1886–1980), British suffragette, women's rights campaigner, magistrate, councillor
• William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

• Ball (foot), a bottom part of the foot
• Balls, a slang word for testicles, which may also apply to chutzpah or bravery

Arts and entertainment

Film and theatre

• Le Bal (1931 film), a French film
• The Ball (1958 film) (Mingea), a Romanian film
• Le Bal (1983 film), an Algerian film
• Balls (film) (Swedish: Farsan), a 2010 Swedish comedy film
• The Ball (2011), an Australian documentary, runner up for the 2011 AACTA Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour
• The Ball (play), a 1632 play by James Shirley

Games

• Ball (Game & Watch), a game for the Nintendo Game & Watch
• Ballz, a 1994 fighting game
• The Ball (video game), a 2010 video game

Music

Groups

• Balls (rock band), a 1969–1971 British rock band
• B.A.L.L., a 1987–1990 American rock band

Albums

• Ball (Iron Butterfly album), 1969
• Ball (Widespread Panic album), 2003
• Balls (Elizabeth Cook album), 2007
• Balls (Sparks album), 2000
• Balls (EP), by Guttermouth, 1991
• Balls, by Napoleon Murphy Brock, 2003

Songs

• "Ball" (song), by T.I., 2012
• "Ball", by DJ Khaled from Victory, 2010
• "Ball", by Susumu Hirasawa from Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK Original Soundtrack, 1997
• "The Ball", from the musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, 2012
• "Un bal", the second movement of Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz, 1830

Television

• Balls (TV channel), a defunct Filipino sports channel
• "The Ball" (Dynasty 1985), an episode
• "The Ball" (Dynasty 1986), an episode
• "The Ball" (Kanon), an episode
• "Balls" (Northern Exposure), an episode

Brands and enterprises

• Ball (St. Paul's Churchyard), an historical bookseller in London
• Ball Corporation, a U.S. packaging manufacturer and metal can maker
• Ball Watch Company

Computing and technology

• BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library), a versatile set of C++ classes for molecular modelling
• Blog Assisted Language Learning, an application of computer-assisted language learning

Schools

• Ball High School, a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, US
• Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, US

Social gatherings

• Ball (dance event)
• The Ball (event), a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve

Sports

• Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
• Bandy ball
• Baseball (ball), the physical object
  • Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter
• Basketball (ball)
• Billiard ball
• Bowling ball
• Cricket ball, the physical object
  • Ball (cricket) or delivery, a single action of bowling
• Football (ball)
  • Ball (association football)
  • Gaelic ball
  • Ball (gridiron football)
  • Rugby ball
• Golf ball
• Lacrosse ball
• Pickleball, the ball used in the game
  • Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court
• Tennis ball
• Volleyball (ball)
• Water polo ball, used in Waterpolo and Canoe polo

Other uses

• Ball (bearing), special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings
• Ball (mathematics), the solid interior of a sphere
• Times Square Ball or the Ball
• Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons

See also

• Bawl (disambiguation)
• Bawls, a high-caffeine soft drink
• Thermoball, a swarm of insects (especially bees) in collective defense against larger insects, such as predatory wasps
• Category:Balls, an index of game balls and other types of round balls
• All pages with titles beginning with Ball
• All pages with titles containing ball