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Glossary Of Cue Sports Terms
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: ''carom billiards'' referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; ''pool'', which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and ''snooker'', played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool. There are also games such as English billiards that include aspects of multiple disciplines. Definitions and language The term "" is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific class of them, or to specific ones such as English billiards; this article uses the term in its most generic sense unless otherwise noted. The labels "British" and " UK" as applied to entries in this glossary refer to terms originating in the UK and also used in countries that were fairly recently part of the British Empire and/or are part of the Commonwealth of Nations, as opposed to US (and, oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cue Sports
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports: * Carom billiards, played on tables without , typically 10 feet in length, including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards, and four-ball * Pool, played on six-pocket tables of 7-, 8-, 9-, or 10-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's most widely played cue sport), nine-ball (the dominant professional game), ten-ball, straight pool (the formerly dominant pro game), one-pocket, and bank pool *Snooker, English billiards, and Russian pyramid, played on a large, six-pocket table (dimensions just under 12 ft by 6 ft), all of which are classified separately from pool based on distinct development histories, player culture, rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to nine colored billiard balls, hitting them in ascending numerical order. An individual game (or ) is won by the player pocketing the . Matches are usually played as a to a set number of racks, with the player who reaches the set number winning the match. The game is currently governed by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), with multiple regional tours. The most prestigious nine-ball tournaments are the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championships. Notable 9-Ball players in the game include Luther Lassiter, Buddy Hall, Earl Strickland and Shane Van Boening. The game is often associated with hustling and gambling, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten-ball
Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "" Although the game has existed for since the early 1960s, its popularity has risen since the early 2000s as a result of concerns that nine-ball has suffered as a result of flaws in its fundamental structure, particularly the ease with which players can often make balls from the break. The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) standardized rules for ten-ball are very similar to those for nine-ball, but with key changes to increase the difficulty of the game. In contrast to nine-ball, it is slightly harder to any balls on the with the more crowded , the initial shooter cannot instantly win the game by pocketing the 10 on the break, all shots must be , and performing a string of on successive racks is statistically more difficult to achieve. Ten-ball is preferred over nine-ball by some professionals as a more challenging discipline than nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goriziana
Goriziana or nine-pin billiards (also known as nine-pins, 9-pins, etc.) is a carom billiards game, especially popular in Italy.Pin Billiards Games at TradGames.org.uk Like the most closely related to it, five-pin billiards, goriziana is played on a 284 cm by 142 cm table. Rules In goriziana, nine pins sit in the center of the table. Three balls are used, of which two are cue balls. The game is played by two teams of one or two players. Each team or player aims to hit the opponent's ball and, from there, score points by striking the red ball, or by making the oppo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight-ball (other)
Eight-ball is a pool game played with a solids-and-stripes ball set. Eight-ball, 8-ball, or variants may also refer to: Games * Blackball (pool), or 8-ball pool, a British game played with a yellows-and-reds ball set * 8 ball, the black ball marked 8, in cue sports terminology * Magic 8-Ball, a toy that resembles the pool ball and purports to predict the future Music * 8 Ball Aitken (born 1981), Australian musician * 8Ball & MJG, an American hip hop duo * ''8 Ball'', an EP by the Burden Brothers, 2002 * ''Eight Ball'', an EP by Joi Cardwell, 1998 * "8 Ball", a song by Underworld * "8-Ball", a song by Pop Smoke from the album ''Faith'', 2021 * "Eight Ball", a song by N.W.A. from '' N.W.A. and the Posse'' * Eightball Records, an American record label Intoxicants * "8-ball", slang for one-eighth ounce (3.5 g) of a powdered psychoactive drug (typically cocaine, but also heroin, ketamine, or methamphetamine) *8-Ball, slang for Olde English 800 brand malt liquor Other use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight-ball
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a and fifteen ). The object balls include seven solid-colored balls numbered 1 through 7, seven striped balls numbered 9 through 15, and the black 8 ball. After the balls are scattered with a , a player is assigned either the group of solid or striped balls once they have legally pocketed a ball from that group. The object of the game is to legally pocket the 8-ball in a "called" pocket, which can only be done after all of the balls from a player's assigned group have been cleared from the table. The game is the most frequently played discipline of pool, and is often thought of as synonymous with "pool". The game has numerous variations, mostly regional. It is the second most played professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue stick, players must strike the white cue ball to nine colored billiard balls, hitting them in ascending numerical order. An individual game (or ) is won by the player pocketing the . Matches are usually played as a to a set number of racks, with the player who reaches the set number winning the match. The game is currently governed by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), with multiple regional tours. The most prestigious nine-ball tournaments are the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championships. Notable 9-Ball players in the game include Luther Lassiter, Buddy Hall, Earl Strickland and Shane Van Boening. The game is often associated with hustling and gambling, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Pin Billiards
Danish billiards or ''keglebillard'', sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional cue sport of Denmark, and the game remains predominantly played in that country. It makes use of a 5 × 10 ft (approximately 1.5 × 3 m) six-pocket table, three billiard balls, and five (), which are considerably larger than those used in the similar and internationally standardized (originally Italian) game of five-pin billiards. Rules The aim of the game is to achieve a predetermined number of in as few shots as possible. The game is played with one red ball and two white balls. In an inversion of the normal play in most three-ball games such as carom billiards and English billiards, the red ball is used as a by both players, with the white balls as the . There are two ways to score points. One is by knocking over one or more of the pins, for 2 points each, with a white object ball after hitting the white with the red cue ball (i.e. a ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five-pin Billiards
Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins ( Italian: ';''Sezione Stecca: Organigramma della Sezione - Attività agonistica - Calendari - Regolamento Tecnico Sportivo, 2004–2005'' , Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo, 2004, Italy. Spanish: '), is today usually a carom billiards form of , though sometimes still played on a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four-ball Billiards
Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted). Each player is assigned one of the white (or yellow) balls as a . A is scored when a shooter's cue ball s on any two other balls in the same (with the opponent's cue ball serving as an , along with the reds, for the shooter). Two points are scored when the shooter caroms on each of the three object balls in a single shot. A carom on only one ball results in no points, and ends the shooter's . Asian variations A variant of four-ball is the East Asian game , or (四球, , Korean for 'four balls'). The game is played with two red object balls, one white cue ball and one yellow cue ball (or sometimes both cue balls are white, one ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three-cushion Billiards
Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to the off both while contacting the at least three times before contacting the second object ball. A point is scored for each successful carom. In most shots the cue ball hits the object balls one time each, although hitting them any number of times is allowed as long as both are hit. The cue ball may contact the cushions before or after hitting the first object ball. It does not have to contact three different cushions as long as it has been in contact with any cushion at least three times in total. History Three-cushion dates to the 1870s, and while the origin of the game is not entirely known, it evolved from one-cushion billiards, which in turn developed from straight rail billiards for the same reason that balkline also arose from straight rail. Such new developments made the game more challenging, less repetitive, and more interesting for spectators as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three-ball
Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a folk game of pool played with any three standard pool and . The game is frequently gambled upon. The goal is to () the three object balls in as few shots as possible.PoolSharp's "Three-Ball Rules" The game involves a somewhat more significant amount of luck than either or , because of the disproportionate value of pocketing balls on the shot and increased difficulty of doing so. In some areas and subcu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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