List of ball games
This is a list of ball games which are popular games or sports involving some type of ball or similar object. Ball sports are not sports in the true sense, but are instead considered to be games. These ball 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 cricket and baseball.
- Racquet and ball games, such as tennis, squash, racquetball and ball badminton.
- Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball and 4 square.
- Goal games, such as forms of hockey (except ice hockey which uses a hockey puck), basketball and all forms of football or lacrosse.
- Net games, such as volleyball and sepak takraw.
- "Target" games, such as bowling and lotball.
Popular ball games
If there are a group of games that are very similar and have a common reference, they will be grouped under this main name as for instance bowling, Football and hockey.
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A - E
- Angleball
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Basque pelota
- Bocce
- Bossaball
- Boules
- Bowling
- Brännboll
- British baseball
- Canoe polo
- Codeball
- Cricket (see cricket ball)
- Croquet
- Cue sports (also knowns as billiards)
- Carom billiards
- English billiards
- Pool (or pocket billiards)
- Snooker
- Cycle ball
- Dodgeball
- Downball
F - K
- Fistball
- Fives
- Flickerball
- Football
- Footvolley
- Four square
- Golf
- Half-rubber
- Handball:
- Hooverball
- Hockey
- Hurling
- Jorkyball
- Juggling
- Kickball
- Kick-to-kick (includes end-to-end footy)
- Kin-Ball
- Klootschieten
- Korfball
L - P
- Lacrosse
- Lawn bowls
- The Mesoamerican ballgame
- Netball
- Newcomb ball
- Omnikin Ball
- Padbol
- Paddle ball
- Paddle tennis
- Padel
- Paintball
- Pelota mixteca
- Pesäpallo
- Pétanque
- Picigin
- Pickleball
- Polo
- Push ball
Q - Z
- Quidditch
- Racquetball
- Rapid ball
- Ringball
- Ringo
- Rock-It-Ball
- Rounders
- Sepak takraw
- Shinty
- Shotput
- Skee ball
- Soccer
- Softball
- Squash
- Stickball
- Stickball (Native American)
- Streetball
- Table football (foosball)
- Table tennis (ping pong)
- TagPro (Browser game)
- Tchoukball
- Team handball
- Tee ball
- Tennis
- Tetherball
- Ulama
- Valencian pilota
- Underwater sports
- Volleyball
- Waboba
- Water basketball
- Water polo
- Wiffleball
- Wireball