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-'''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]] (soccer), [[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:
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-* [[Bat-and-ball games]], such as [[baseball]] and [[cricket]
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-* [[List of racquet sports|Racquet and ball]] games, such as [[tennis]], [[squash (sport)|squash]] and [[badminton]].
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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]] and all forms of [[football]],  [[lacrosse]], and [[hockey]] (the derived sport of ice hockey, which uses a puck rather than a ball, is classified with the goal, team ball sports for some purposes).
-* Non-racquet [[net sports]], such as [[volleyball]] and ''[[sepak takraw]]''.
-* [[List of sports#Target sports|Target sports]] or precision assports, such as [[bowling]], [[lawn bowls]], [[croquet]], and [[golf]], as 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).
-== See also ==
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-* [[List of ball games]]
-* [[The Ball Game]], an 1898 American baseball documentary sports film
-* [[Baseball park]], the reference in the phase "take me to the ballgame"
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