Ball game

Ball games (or ballgames), also ball sports, are any form of game or sport which feature a ball
as part of play. These include games such as football, cricket, baseball, basketball, and
American football. Such games have diverse rules and histories and are of mostly unrelated
origins. Ball games can be defined in several broad types, and generally try to measure how well
a player can hit a ball:

bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball. These measure the quality of a hit by
looking at how much running a ball-hitting player can accomplish before an opponent can
retrieve the ball.

Racquet and ball games, such as tennis, squash and ball badminton. These are based on
players trying to hit the ball to an opponent in such a way that the opponent can't successfully
hit it back.

Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball, and four
square.

Goal sports, usually team sports such as basketball, water polo and all forms of football,
lacrosse, and hockey (except ice hockey which is a goal sport but is played with a hockey
puck). These are based on players being split into teams who have a "goal" in their own
separate half of the field, with the ball being driven into the opposing team's goal to score
points.

Non-racquet net sports, such as volleyball and sepak takraw.

Target sports or precision sports, such as bowling, lawn bowls, croquet, and golf, as well as
cue sports, including snooker, pool, and other forms of billiards (the sport of curling, which
uses a stone rather than a ball, is classified with target or precision sports for some
 purposes). These are based on hitting the ball into a certain target(s), with the quality of the
hit usually measured by how few hits it requires to get the ball in/through the target(s).

See also

Look up ball game in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Apalachee ball game

Mesoamerican ballgame

Baseball park, the reference in the phase "take me to the ballgame"

List of ball games

The Ball Game, an 1898 American baseball documentary sports film

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