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A ball game is a game played with a ball.

There are many popular games or sports involving some type of ball or similar object. These games can be grouped by the general objective of the game, sometimes indicating a common origin either of a game itself or of its basic idea:
  • Bat-and-ball games, such as baseball, cricket and golf.
  • Two-goal games, such as basketball and all forms of football and hockey or lacrosse.
  • Volleying games, such as volleyball and tennis.
  • "Target" games, such as bowling and lotball.
  • The original "Ball Game", whose objective is to keep the ball constantly moving but not allowing it to bounce twice upon the ground without being struck between bounces.
  • and so on
Popular ball games from around the world include:

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game is a structured or semi-structured , usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes also used as an educational tool. (The term "game" is also used to describe simulation of various activities e.g., for the purposes of training, analysis or prediction, etc.
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BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is a C++ library containing common algorithms used in biochemistry and bioinformatics. The library also has Python bindings. Among the supported systems are Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows.
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Bat-and-ball games are games that are played using a bat and a ball. Examples are cricket, baseball, golf, and older games such as bat and trap. The games rely on the physics of bats (see baseball bat and cricket bat), which work by greatly increasing, through the length and
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Pilota Valenciana or Valencian pilota (pilota means ball in Valencian) is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Community. Its origins are not known, but seems to be related to the French Jeu de paume.
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Jai-Alai (IPA: /ˈhaɪəlaɪ/ in English and IPA: [haɪɑlaɪ] in Basque) means "Merry Festival" in the Basque language.
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Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports) are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions.
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Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m).
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Eight-ball is a pocket billiards (pool) game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international amateur and professional competition. It is played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
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Bocce is a precision sport closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is played around Europe and also in overseas countries that have received Italian migrants,
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Boules /bul/ is a collective name for games played with metal balls. Boules is very popular in France.

Two of the most played boule games are pétanque and boule lyonnaise.
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Bowling is a sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface in order to knock down objects called pins. There are many forms of bowling, with the earliest dating back to ancient India.
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Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling or its true name crown green bowls) is a precision sport in which the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the "jack" or "kitty" or "sweetie") than
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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. The object of the game is to get the ball into the opponent's goal (i.e.
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Carpetball is a recreational game that involves attempting to knock all of your opponent's balls into their end of the carpetball table before they knock all of your balls into your end. It is often found at camps and in youth facilities.
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch.
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A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket.

Manufacture

Cricket balls are made from a core of cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam.
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Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.
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Dodgeball (or dodge ball) is the name of a traditional game taught in physical education classes in the U.S. and Canada as well as other such parts of the world, usually in elementary school, but is played in middle and high school as well.
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Table football (UK) or foosball (US, Canada) is a table-top game that is based on Football (soccer). The origins of the game are unclear, but most historians agree that the first tables probably appeared in Spain, France or Germany in the 1880s-1890s.
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A footbag is a small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of sports and games. It is typically controlled by the feet, but in some sports every part of the body except the hands and arms may be used.
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Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these world-wide is association football (also known as soccer). The English word "football" is also applied to American football (also known as gridiron), Australian rules football, Canadian
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American football, known in the United States simply as football [1] is a competitive team sport known for its physical roughness despite being a highly strategic game.
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Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply "football" or "footy" is a code of football played with a prolate spheroid ball, on large oval shaped fields (cricket fields), with four posts at each end.
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Gaelic Football (Irish: Peil, Peil Gaelach or Caid ), commonly referred to as "football", or "Gaelic" , is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. It, along with Hurling, is the most popular spectator sport in Ireland.
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International rules football (sometimes known as "inter rules" or, particularly in Ireland, "compromise rules"; in Irish, Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players. It is the most popular sport in the world.
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Rugby League

General Information
Originated 1895, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
World Governing Body Rugby League International Federation
International Rugby League
Test Nations Australia
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