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[ 0 => '{{Short description|Game or sport featuring a ball as part of play}}', 1 => '{{merge to|List of ball games|discuss=Talk:List of ball games#Merger proposal|date=August 2022}}', 2 => '{{unref|date=January 2021}}', 3 => '[[File:Ball-play of the Women, Prairie du Chien SAAM-1985.66.430 1.jpg|thumb|''Ball-play of the Women, [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin|Prairie du Chien]]'', oil painting by [[George Catlin]], 1835-36]]', 4 => ''''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:', 5 => '', 6 => '* [[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. ', 7 => '* [[List of racket sports|Racquet and ball]] games, such as [[tennis]], [[squash (sport)|squash]], [[ball badminton]] and [[table tennis]]. 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. ', 8 => '* Hand and ball-striking games, such as various [[handball (disambiguation)|handball]] codes, rebound handball, and [[four square]].', 9 => '* [[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. ', 10 => '* Non-racquet [[net sports]], such as [[volleyball]] and ''[[sepak takraw]]''.', 11 => '* [[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).', 12 => '', 13 => '== See also ==', 14 => '{{wiktionary}}', 15 => '* [[List of ball games]] ', 16 => '* [[Baseball park]], the reference in the phase "take me out to the ballgame"', 17 => '* ''[[The Ball Game]]'', an 1898 American baseball documentary sports film', 18 => '{{Authority control}}', 19 => '', 20 => '[[Category:Ball games| ]]', 21 => '[[Category:Outdoor games]]', 22 => '[[Category: Sports by type]]' ]