Billiards, any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue. The table and the cushioned rail bordering the table are topped with a feltlike tight-fitting cloth. Carom, or French, billiards is played with three balls on a table that has no pockets. Billiard in Arlington on YP.com. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for the best Billiard Equipment & Supplies in Arlington, WA.
- Triangle Billiards and Barstools, located in Tustin, California has been in business since April 1978. In the world of billiards, games and gaming sales, that’s considered a very long time. Triangle is one of the oldest established billiard and game stores in the United States.
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Games[edit]
- A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports (see below)
- Billiards: cue sports in general, including pool, carom billiards, snooker, English billiard etc.; the 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 in general (a chiefly non-British usage)
- Three-cushion billiards even more specifically, the most popular form of carom billiards worldwide (the most common specific usage)
- The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage)
- Pool (cue sports) (pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage)
- See the list of cue sports for various other games with 'billiards' in their names; also more specifically:
- Bar billiards, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards
- Electric billiards, an obsolete term for pinball (from billard électrique in French, in which pinball is today called flipper, a borrowing from English)
Mathematics and physics[edit]
- Billiard (number), the long-scale name used in most European languages for the number 1015 (called quadrillion in the short scale generally used in English)
- Dynamical billiards, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary
People[edit]
- Harry Billiard (1883–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Maria Duchêne-Billiard (1884–?), French contralto of the Metropolitan Opera
- Cora Billiard Wickham Sibley (née Billiard, 1884–1976), American painter, and wife of Robert Pelton Sibley
See also[edit]
- Billiards World Cup Association, a governing body for carom billiards
- Billard, a French rolling stock construction company
- Bobbi Billard (born 1975), American model
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