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-{{Short description|Game or sport featuring a ball as part of play}}{{unref|date=January 2021}}
-'''Ball games''' (or '''ballgames'''), also '''ball sports''', are any form of [[game]] or [[sport]] which feature a [[ball]] as part of play. These include games such as [[association football|football]], [[cricket]], [[baseball]], [[basketball]], and [[American football]]. Such games have diverse rules and histories and are of mostly unrelated origins. Ball games can be defined in several broad types, and generally try to measure how well a player can hit a ball:
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-* [[bat-and-ball games]], such as [[cricket]] and [[baseball]]. These measure the quality of a hit by looking at how much running a ball-hitting player can accomplish before an opponent can retrieve the ball.
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-* [[List of racket sports|Racquet and ball]] games, such as [[tennis]], [[squash (sport)|squash]] and [[ball badminton]]. These are based on players trying to hit the ball to an opponent in such a way that the opponent can't successfully hit it back.
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-* Hand and ball-striking games, such as various [[handball (disambiguation)|handball]] codes, rebound handball, and [[four square]].
-* [[Goal (sport)|Goal sports]], usually team sports such as [[basketball]], [[water polo]] and all forms of [[football]],  [[lacrosse]], and [[hockey]] (except [[ice hockey]] which is a goal sport but is played with a [[hockey puck]]). These are based on players being split into teams who have a "goal" in their own separate half of the field, with the ball being driven into the opposing team's goal to score points.
-* Non-racquet [[net sports]], such as [[volleyball]] and ''[[sepak takraw]]''.
-* [[List of sports#Target sports|Target sports]] or precision sports, such as [[bowling]], [[lawn bowls]], [[croquet]], and [[golf]], as well as [[cue sports]], including [[snooker]], [[pool (cue sports)|pool]], and other forms of billiards (the sport of curling, which uses a stone rather than a ball, is classified with target or precision sports for some purposes). These are based on hitting the ball into a certain target(s), with the quality of the hit usually measured by how few hits it requires to get the ball in/through the target(s).
-== See also ==
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-*[[Apalachee#Ball_game| Apalachee ball game]]
-* [[Mesoamerican ballgame]]
-* [[Baseball park]], the reference in the phase "take me to the ballgame"
-* [[List of ball games]]
-* ''[[The Ball Game]]'', an 1898 American baseball documentary sports film
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 [[Category:Outdoor games]]
-[[Category: Sports by type]]
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