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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:
- Baseball (in the United States, a game of baseball is referred to as a "ballgame")
- Basketball
- Basque pilota
- Billiards (including snooker, eight ball and pool variations)
- Bocce
- Boules
- Bowling
- Bowls
- Canoe polo
- Carpetball
- Cricket (see cricket ball)
- Croquet
- Dodgeball
- Foosball
- Footbag
- Football:
- Footballtennis
- Four square
- Golf (see golf ball)
- Handball:
- Hockey:
- Hurling
- Indiaca
- Juggling
- Lacrosse
- Lotball
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Netball
- Newcomb ball
- PaddleBall
- Paintball
- Pétanque
- Podex
- Polo
- Quidditch (fictional game)
- Racquetball
- Sepak Takraw
- Shinty
- Skee ball
- Squash
- Stickball
- Stickball (Native American)
- Stone Ring
- Tchoukball
- Tee Ball
- Tetherball
- Tennis
- Tennis Polo/Toccer
- Ulama game
- Valencian pilota
Volleyball - Water basketball
- Water polo
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