Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on...
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Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to carom the cue ball off both object...
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Pool (cue sports) (redirect from Pocket Billiards)
aspects of both pool and carom billiards, such as American four-ball billiards, bottle pool, cowboy pool, and English billiards. The etymology of "pool"...
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Billiard table (redirect from Pocket (billiards))
table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool,...
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English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards...
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Cue sports (redirect from History of billiards)
sports: Carom billiards, played on tables without pockets, typically ten feet in length, including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion...
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Glossary of cue sports terms (redirect from Billiards terminology)
used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool...
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Look up carom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carom may refer to: Ajwain (Trachyspermum ammi), an herb in Indian cuisine Carom billiards (also known...
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Billiard ball (redirect from Billiards ball)
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...
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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...
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One-cushion billiards also known as cushion caroms is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth-covered, 10-by-5-foot (3.0 m × 1.5 m),...
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Cue stick (redirect from Billiards cue)
specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used...
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Straight rail (redirect from Straight-Rail Billiards)
Straight rail, also called straight billiards, three-ball billiards, or the free game, is a discipline of carom billiards that is the most basic form of the...
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usually a carom billiards form of cue sport, though sometimes still played on a pocket table. In addition to the customary three balls of most carom games...
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Billiard (redirect from Billiards (disambiguation))
term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically: Carom billiards (also known as French billiards), games...
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the same name. In addition to pool, Reyes has played international carom billiards, specifically balkline, one-cushion, and three-cushion. Reyes was born...
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Billiard hall (redirect from Billiards hall)
people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments commonly serve alcohol and often have arcade games...
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Artistic billiards is a cue sport played on a billiard table. A discipline of carom billiards, players aim to recreate a portion of 76 pre-set shots of...
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game of billiards",: 117 developed into a variety of modern outdoor and indoor games and sports such as croquet, pool, snooker, and carom billiards. Its...
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Carom billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is...
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Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports (billiards-type games), including carom billiards...
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Billiard Congress of America (redirect from Billiards Congress of America)
influence in the late 1930s, in part owing to a dispute with world carom billiards champion Willie Hoppe, the NBAA reformed in 1941 as the Billiard Association...
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Kaisa (cue sport) (redirect from Kaisa (billiards))
are 12 feet long. It is a two-player or two-team game. As with many carom billiards games, both players have their own cue balls used to shoot at the other...
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wrestling Wushu Cue sports Carom billiards Three-cushion men women team Five-pins individual team artistic English billiards amateurs women Pool blackball...
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Willie Hoppe (category American carom billiards players)
internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion. Hoppe is widely considered one of the greatest billiards players of all time and was posthumously...
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Balkline (redirect from Balkline Billiards)
Balkline is the overarching title of a group of carom billiards games generally played with two cue balls and a red object ball on a cloth-covered, 5 foot...
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Russian pyramid (redirect from Russian Billiards)
of pool and snooker tables, but is occasionally heated, similar to carom billiards tables. Balls: There are sixteen balls, fifteen numbered object balls...
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Sruong Pheavy (Khmer: ស្រួង ភាវី, Korean: 스롱 피아비) is a Cambodian carom billiards player specialized in thiree-cushion event. She is widely well known...
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wrestling Wushu Cue sports Carom billiards Three-cushion men women team Five-pins individual team artistic English billiards amateurs women Pool blackball...
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Roque Crossnet Cue sports (also knowns as billiards) Carom billiards English billiards Pool (or pocket billiards) Snooker Cycle ball Dodgeball Downball Fistball...
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