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is a spherical round object with various uses. Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer to:

Places

Ball (crater) Ball is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon. It was named after British astronomer William Ball William Ball may refer to: * William Ball (MP) ( 1571), MP for Nottingham * William Ball (astronomer) ...

, a crater on the Moon * Ball, Cornwall, a hamlet in the north of Cornwall, England, UK *

Ball, Louisiana Ball is a town in Rapides Parish, just north of Pineville, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1972, it is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,000 at the 2010 census, an increase of 8.7 pe ...

, a town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, US * Balls (mountain range), a mountain range in Madera County, California, US

People with the surname

Ball (surname) Ball is an English surname that has multiple potential origins, as do many short surnames: * one origin suggests that ''Ball'' is a shortened form, a "favorite contraction", of the given name ''Baldwin'', dating "from Norman times" * another purpor ...

, a list of people with the surname Ball * Ed Balls, a British politician *

Katy Balls use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinate ...

, a British journalist * William Lawrence Balls, a British botanist

Anatomy

* Ball (anatomy), a bottom part of the foot * Balls, bollocks, bullocks, or ''cojones'', a slang word for

testicle A testicle or testis (plural testes) is the male reproductive gland or gonad in all bilaterians, including humans. It is homologous to the female ovary. The functions of the testes are to produce both sperm and androgens, primarily testostero ...

s, which may also apply to chutzpah or bravery

Arts and entertainment

Film and theatre

* ''Le Bal'' (1931 film), a French film * ''The Ball'' (1958 film) (''Mingea''), a Romanian film * ''Le Bal'' (1983 film), an Algerian film * ''Balls'' (film) (Swedish: Farsan), a 2010 Swedish comedy film * ''The Ball'' (2011), an Australian documentary, runner up for the 2011

AACTA Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour The AACTA Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour, is a non-feature film award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) to the producer of an Australian documentary that is "a self-contained non-fiction film or T ...

* ''The Ball'' (play), a 1632 play by James Shirley

Games

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

Music

Groups

Balls (rock band) Trevor Burton (born Trevor Ireson; 9 March 1949 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is an English guitarist and is a founding member of The Move. Career Burton started playing guitar at a young age and was leading his own group called The Everglad ...

, a 1969–1971 British rock band *

B.A.L.L. B.A.L.L. (pronounced "ball") were an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1987. The band was formed by Don Fleming, Kramer, David Licht and Jay Spiegel. After releasing 4 LP's (all Produced & Engineered by Kramer for ...

, a 1987–1990 American rock band

Albums

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

Songs

* "Ball" (song), by T.I., 2012 * "Ball", by DJ Khaled from ''

Victory The term victory (from Latin ''victoria'') originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal Duel, combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign constitu ...

'', 2010 * "Ball", by Susumu Hirasawa from '' Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK Original Soundtrack'', 1997 * "The Ball", from the musical '' Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'', 2012 * "Un bal", the second movement of ''

Symphonie fantastique ' (''Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections'') Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period. The first performan ...

'' by Hector Berlioz, 1830

Television

* Balls (TV channel), a defunct Filipino sports channel * "The Ball" (''Dynasty'' 1985), an episode * "The Ball" (''Dynasty'' 1986), an episode * "The Ball" (''Kanon''), an episode

Brands and enterprises

* Ball (St. Paul's Churchyard), an historical bookseller in London *

Ball Corporation Ball Corporation is an American company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. It is best known for its early production of glass Mason jar, jars, lids, and related products used for home canning. Since its founding in Buffalo, New York, in 1880, ...

, a U.S. packaging manufacturer and metal can maker * Ball Watch Company

Computing and technology

BALL A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but can sometimes be ovoid) with several uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used f ...

(Biochemical Algorithms Library), a versatile set of C++ classes for molecular modelling *

Blog Assisted Language Learning Computer-assisted language learning (CALL), British, or Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI)/Computer-Aided Language Instruction (CALI), American, is briefly defined in a seminal work by Levy (1997: p. 1) as "the search for and study of applicat ...

, an application of computer-assisted language learning

Schools

Ball High School Ball High School is a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, United States. Ball, which covers grades 9 through 12, is a part of Galveston Independent School District. Ball High School serves the cities of Galveston and Jamaica Beach and ...

, a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, US *

Ball State University Ball State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public university, public research university in Muncie, Indiana. It has two satellite facilities in Fishers, Indiana, Fishers and Indianapolis. On July 25, 1917, the Ball brothers, indust ...

, Muncie, Indiana, US

Social gatherings

* Ball (dance party) *

The Ball (event) The Matzo Ball is an annual Christmas Eve nightlife event and party held in a number of major cities in the United States targeted primarily at young Jewish singles and organized by Mazel Events, LLC (previously the Society of Young Jewish Profe ...

, a NYC Jewish singles event on Christmas Eve *

Times Square Ball The Times Square Ball is a time ball located in New York City's Times Square. Located on the roof of One Times Square, the ball is a prominent part of a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ...

or the Ball

Sports

* Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) * Baseball (ball), the physical object **

Ball (baseball statistics) In baseball, the strike zone is the volume of space through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike even if the batter does not swing. The strike zone is defined as the volume of space above home plate and between the batter's kn ...

, a pitch outside the strike zone and not swung at by the batter *

Basketball (ball) A basketball is a spherical ball used in basketball games. Basketballs usually range in size from very small promotional items that are only a few inches (some centimeters) in diameter to extra large balls nearly in diameter used in training ex ...

Cricket ball A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. A cricket ball consists of a cork core wound with string then a leather cover stitched on, and manufacture is regulated by cricket law at first-class level. The trajectory of a crick ...

, the physical object **

Ball (cricket) A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling (cricket), bowling a cricket ball toward the batsman. Once the ball has been delivered, batsmen may attempt to score Run (cricket), runs, with the bowler and other Fielding (cricket), ...

or delivery, a single action of bowling *

Football (ball) A football is a ball inflated with air that is used to play one of the various sports known as football. In these games, with some exceptions, goals or points are scored only when the ball enters one of two designated goal-scoring areas; footba ...

Ball (association football) A football (also known as football ball, soccer ball, or association football ball specifically in the United Kingdom) is the ball used in the sport of association football. The name of the ball varies according to whether the sport is called ...

Gaelic ball A football or Gaelic ball () is the spherical leather football used in the sports of Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football and international rules football. The pattern of panels consists of six groups perpendicular to each other, each gro ...

** Gridiron ball ** Rugby ball * Golf ball * Handball (ball) *

Pickleball Pickleball is an indoor or outdoor racket/paddle sport where two players (singles), or four players (doubles), hit a perforated hollow polymer ball over a net using solid-faced paddles. Opponents on either side of the net hit the ball back and ...

, the ball used in the game ** Ball!, a warning of an errant ball on the court *

Softball (ball) Softball is a game Variations of baseball, similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the #Professional leagues, professional level. The game was fir ...

* Tennis ball *

Whiffle ball Wiffle ball, a team sport developed in 1953 in Fairfield, Connecticut, is a scaled back variation of baseball designed for playing in a confined space. The sport is played using a perforated light-weight plastic ball and a long hollow plastic b ...

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'' * '' Boule de Genève'' (Geneva ball), a type of pendant watch in the shape of a small ball * Round shot or cannonball or ball, a round projectile fired from guns and cannons