Ball games

American (or court) handball is an American form of fives played against one or more walls. It has origins in pre- Hispanic central America (about 1500 BC) and Scotland/ Ireland circa 1500 AD. For centuries, the game was limited primarily to Ireland as Gaelic handball. Irish immigrants brought it to the United States in the 1880s. It is similar to (and in fact preceded) racquetball and squash. Jai alai is also thought to have evolved from handball. ...more on Wikipedia about "American handball"

Angleball is said to have been started by Rip Engle, a football coach at Penn State before Joe Paterno. Engle devised the game as a way for his players to maintain fitness in the off-season. Deliberately, it has light contact and few rules or requirements. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angleball"

:See also: List of Australian Football Leagues outside Australia ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian football around the world"

Australian football, which is also known as Australian rules football, or less formally as "Aussie rules" or simply as "footy" is a code of football which originated in Melbourne, Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian rules football"

Medieval ball game played in Scotland, perhaps most notably in Orkney, around Christmas and New Year. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ba game"

A ball is a round object that is used most often in sports and games. Balls are usually hollow and spherical but can be other shapes, such as ovoid (only in a few special cases) or solid (as in billiards). In most games using balls, the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked, or thrown by players. Balls are often used in ball dropping functions such as in the famous Times Square New Year's Eve ceremony. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ball"

A ball game is a sport played with a ball. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ball game"

Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball past a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth cylinder called a bat. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baseball"

Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basketball"

Bat and trap is an ancient English ball game related to cricket and played at country pubs in the county of Kent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bat and trap"

Beach volleyball has evolved from the popular social games of volleyball played on many beaches around the world. This version, rather than being played on indoor hard courts, is played on sand courts, which are either formed naturally or built specifically for the purpose. Instead of a team of six, each team consists of only two players, but otherwise the rules are almost identical with some exceptions including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Beach volleyball"

Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table. ...more on Wikipedia about "Billiards"

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, including the United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina, initially amongst the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bocce"

Boccia is a competitive sport, similar to bowls (but closer to bocce as the balls are not biased), but designed to be played by people with disabilities - specifically, cerebral palsy and other locomotor disabilities (those which affect motor skills). It is an official Paralympic sport, and is played in over forty countries worldwide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boccia"

Bocha is a game in which the objective is to hit one ball into another. Bocha is a modified version of an indigineus game called botchia, the first rules for the game were established by the portuguese prince Pedro Álvares Cabral in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Little modifications have been made since then, most of them concerning the break of the game into periods of time. The most famous practioner of the game, despite his reclusiveness, is Seu Osny ...more on Wikipedia about "Bocha"

Bossaball is a ball game between 2 teams. It's a variation on the volleyball concept. The court is a combination of inflatables and trampolines, divided by a net. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bossaball"

Boules / bul/ is a collective name for games played with metal balls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boules"

Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a ball along a surface to either hit a target or knock down objects called pins. There are many forms of bowling, and the earliest known form has been dated back to ancient Egypt. Probably the best known form today is the American game of Ten-pin bowling. This form, in both amateur and professional versions, is played around the world, making it one of the largest participation sports available. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowling"

Bowls (also known as Lawn Bowls or Lawn Bowling) is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the "jack" or "kitty") than one's opponent is able to do. It is related to bocce and pétanque. This game is most popular in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and in other UK territories. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowls"

Brännboll (pronounced brennball) is a game similar to Rounders and baseball played on amateur level throughout Sweden and Denmark, mostly on meadows and in public parks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brännboll"

Broomball is a popular recreational ice sport often thought to have originated in Canada and is played in many countries around the world. It is played on a hockey rink, either indoors or outdoors, depending on climate and location. ...more on Wikipedia about "Broomball" Please inform your friends about www.shortopedia.com

Button football is a football (soccer) simulation game played on a table-top utilizing concave "disks" or "buttons" as players. Board dimensions, markings, and rules of play are modeled to simulate standard football. It is popular throughout all of Brazil, and possibly other countries as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Button football"

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. to score goals), the team scoring the most goals in a set time being the winner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canoe polo"

Cnapan (sometimes spelt Knapan or Knappan) is an archaic sport which vaguely resembles some modern versions of football. The game is claimed to have originated (and seems to have remained largely confined to) the Western counties of Wales, especially Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cnapan"

Coneball, sometimes spelled as cone ball, is a team sport that usually involves the use of soft, sometimes foam, balls, and bowling pins. There are many different varieties of play for this sport, most of which are undocumented. This article (currently) deals with only one of these varieties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coneball"

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