Ball (disambiguation)

A ball is a spherical round object with various uses.

Ball or Balls may also refer to:

Places

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

People with the surname

• Ball (surname), a list of people with the surname Ball
• Ed Balls, a British politician
• William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

(Chronological)

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

Games

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

Music

Groups and labels

• Balls (rock band), a British rock band who performed from 1969 to 1971
• B.A.L.L., an American alternative rock band

Albums and EPs

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

Songs

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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Balls (TV channel), a defunct Filipino sports channel
• The Ball (play), a 1632 play by James Shirley

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, United States
• Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, United States

Social gatherings

• Ball (dance party)
• Society ball, a type of formal dance party
• The Ball (event), a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve
• Times Square Ball or the Ball

Sports

• Ball (baseball statistics), a pitch at which the batter does not swing and that does not pass through the strike zone
• Ball (football)
• Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
• Baseball (ball), the spherical piece of equipment that is thrown and batted in a game of baseball
• Basketball
• Cricket ball
• Delivery (cricket) or ball
• Football
• Handball
• Soccer ball
• Tennis ball
• Whiffle ball or wiffle ball

Other uses

• Ball (bearing), special highly spherical and smooth balls, most commonly used in ball bearings
• Ball (mathematics), the solid interior of a sphere
• Ball of wax example, also known as the wax argument, a thought experiment by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy
• Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons

See also

• 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